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

Immanuel Kant

All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
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
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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Human Humanity Learning Peace
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
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Act Judgement Life Result
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
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
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
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
Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
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
Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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Art Beautiful Nature

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

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