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The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.

Immanuel Kant

We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
To be is to do.
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Action Existence
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
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 hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Hands Perspective See
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
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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Genius Independent Learning Person
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Easy Greatness Philosophy
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
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
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
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
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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Human Humanity Learning Peace
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Break Up End Human
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

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