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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Immanuel Kant

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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Genius Independent Learning Person
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
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
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Break Up End Human
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy Spiritual
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge Ourselves
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
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
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
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
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

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