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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Immanuel Kant

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
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
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
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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Feeling Life Live
How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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Beyond Ourselves Regard Understand
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power 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
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
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
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
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself
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
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
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

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