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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

Immanuel Kant

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
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
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
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
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
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
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual

One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

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