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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.

Immanuel Kant

Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
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
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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God Goodness Herself Man Nature
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
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
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
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
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
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich

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