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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.

Immanuel Kant

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
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
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
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Emotion Ourselves Relationship Separate
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
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
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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Mathematics Science
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

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