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.
IMMANUEL KANTExperience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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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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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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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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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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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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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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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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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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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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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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