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

Immanuel Kant

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
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
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
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
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
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
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
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
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
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
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge

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

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