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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.

Immanuel Kant

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
Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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Break End Human Race
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
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
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
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
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
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
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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Children Patience Time Truth
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 the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
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
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 busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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Feeling Life Live
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason

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