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

Immanuel Kant

In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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Mathematics Science
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
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
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
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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Heaven Law Mindset Moral Myself
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Greatness Human Philosophy
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth
How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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Beyond Ourselves Regard Understand
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Beautiful Judgement Opinion
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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Art Beautiful Nature
Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Control Man One Liner Woman
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Emotion Ourselves Relationship Separate
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
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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Break End Human Race
It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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Existence Man Philosophy Reason
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
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge

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

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