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

Immanuel Kant

To be is to do.
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Action Existence
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
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 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
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy Spiritual
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
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
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
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
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
There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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Bad Philosophy Protection Weakness
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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Beyond Ourselves Regard Understand
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See

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