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

Immanuel Kant

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
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
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
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
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
Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right
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
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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Heaven Law Mindset Moral Myself
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
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
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching

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

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