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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

Immanuel Kant

There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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Bad Philosophy Protection Weakness
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
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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Existence Man Philosophy Reason
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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Freedom God History Man Nature
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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Heaven Hope Human Laughter Sleep
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
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
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
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
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

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