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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Immanuel Kant

We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery 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
A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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Business Greatness Material Reason
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy Spiritual
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
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
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
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
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

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