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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

The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
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
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Break Up End Human
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
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
The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Hands Perspective See
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
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
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

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