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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.

Immanuel Kant

By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Break Up End Human
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
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
The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Freedom Man Release Religion
Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Book Goodness Mindset Past Reading
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
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

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