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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.

Immanuel Kant

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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Business Greatness Material 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
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
To be is to do.
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Action Existence
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
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Possible Willing World
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man 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
The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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Freedom God History Man Nature
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand

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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