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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

Immanuel Kant

Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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Feeling Life Live
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Education Hope Lie Perfection
You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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Freedom Moral Willing Yourself
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
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Man Moral Potential Purpose Reality Wild
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Animal Heart Himself Judgement Man
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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Genius Independent Learning Person
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

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