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

Immanuel Kant

Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
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
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Greatness Human Philosophy
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
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
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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Bad Philosophy Protection Weakness
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
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
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Possible Willing World
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas

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

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