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

Immanuel Kant

Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Beautiful Judgement Opinion
If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth
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
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
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Human Inspirational Love Man War
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
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
What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Emotion Ourselves Relationship Separate
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Control Man One Liner Woman
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 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
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Break Up End Human
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
To be is to do.
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Action Existence
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
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
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
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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Mathematics Science
Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Easy Greatness Philosophy
Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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God Goodness Herself Man Nature
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy

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