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

Immanuel Kant

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
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
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
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
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
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
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
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
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
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
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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Happiness Moral Ourselves Self Love Worth
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
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
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love

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