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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.

Immanuel Kant

Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
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
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Easy Greatness Philosophy
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
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
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
The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Freedom Man Release Religion
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth

Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.

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