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

Immanuel Kant

What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Emotion Ourselves Relationship Separate
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
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
To be is to do.
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Action Existence
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
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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Heaven Law Mindset Moral Myself
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral

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