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Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

Immanuel Kant

By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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God Goodness Herself Man Nature
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
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
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
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
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
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
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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Act Law Moral Time
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge Ourselves

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