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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.

Immanuel Kant

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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Heaven Hope Human Laughter Sleep
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
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Freedom Man Release Religion
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Impossible Philosophy Willing World
Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Possible Willing World

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