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

Immanuel Kant

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
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
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
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy 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
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
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
It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Impossible Philosophy Willing World
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
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
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas

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