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

Immanuel Kant

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
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
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
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
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
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
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
To be is to do.
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Action Existence
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
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
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
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
If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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God Man Philosophy Religion Talk
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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Art Beautiful Nature

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