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

Immanuel Kant

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
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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Genius Independent Learning Person
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
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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Man Moral Potential Purpose Reality Wild
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Break Up End Human
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
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
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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Children Patience Time Truth
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value

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