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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 Kant

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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Genius Independent Learning Person
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
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
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
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
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge Ourselves
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
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
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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Heaven Hope Human Laughter Sleep
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
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
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
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People

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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