All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
IMMANUEL KANTIf justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
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Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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