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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

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
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
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Book Goodness Mindset Past Reading
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
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
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
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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Independent Man Understand
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself
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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Act Judgement Life Result
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy Spiritual
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
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
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
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
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
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Human Inspirational Love Man War
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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Children Patience Time Truth
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
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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Business Greatness Material Reason

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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