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.
IMMANUEL KANTIn all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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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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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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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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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.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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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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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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To be is to do.
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But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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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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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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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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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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