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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.

Immanuel Kant

I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
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
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
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy Spiritual
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
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
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
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Break Up End Human
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
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
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
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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Human Humanity Learning Peace
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Animal Heart Himself Judgement Man
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
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
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
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
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
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

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