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By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.

Immanuel Kant

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
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
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
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
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
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Break Up End Human
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People

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