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

Immanuel Kant

We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
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
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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Act Law Moral Time
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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Heaven Law Mindset Moral Myself
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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Mathematics Science
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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Independent Man Understand
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity

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

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