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

Immanuel Kant

Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
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
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
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
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
The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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Freedom God History Man Nature
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
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
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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Heaven Hope Human Laughter Sleep
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
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge

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

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