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The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.

Immanuel Kant

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
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
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
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
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 cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
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
Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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Break End Human Race
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
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
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
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself

The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.

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The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.

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