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

Immanuel Kant

To be is to do.
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Action Existence
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
The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Freedom Man Release Religion
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
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Break Up End Human
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Easy Greatness Philosophy
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
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
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People
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
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Emotion Ourselves Relationship Separate
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
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
How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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Beyond Ourselves Regard Understand
Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
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
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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Feeling Life Live
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring

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

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