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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Immanuel Kant

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
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
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Impossible Philosophy Willing World
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
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
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
You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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Freedom Moral Willing Yourself
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
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
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
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
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
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
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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God Man Philosophy Religion Talk
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
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
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

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

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