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

Immanuel Kant

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
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
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Break Up End Human
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Control Man One Liner Woman
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
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
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
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
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself
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
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Hands Perspective See
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
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
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
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
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World

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