Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
IMMANUEL KANTWhat can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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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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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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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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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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