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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.

Immanuel Kant

In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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Mathematics Science
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
To be is to do.
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Action Existence
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
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
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Experience Mindset Reality Space Time
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
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
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
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
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Man Moral Potential Purpose Reality Wild
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
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
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 hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Hands Perspective See
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
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy Spiritual
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Beautiful Judgement Opinion
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

Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.

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