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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Immanuel Kant

It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
IMMANUEL KANT

Existence Man Philosophy 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
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
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
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
War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
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Human Inspirational Love Man War
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
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
IMMANUEL KANT

Experience Teaching
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
IMMANUEL KANT

Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
IMMANUEL KANT

Break Up End People
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Greatness Human Philosophy
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge Ourselves
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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Independent Man Understand

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