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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.

Immanuel Kant

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
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
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
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Book Goodness Mindset Past Reading
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
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
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
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy Spiritual
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
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
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
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
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Beautiful Judgement Opinion
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
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.
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Experience Teaching
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Experience Mindset Reality Space Time
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right

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