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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.

Immanuel Kant

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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Art Beautiful Nature
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
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
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
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
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Greatness Human Philosophy
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy Spiritual

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