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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

Immanuel Kant

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
IMMANUEL KANT

God Hell Knowledge
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
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
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 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
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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Freedom God History Man Nature
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason

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