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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

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
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
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
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
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
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Beautiful Judgement Opinion
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
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
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Animal Heart Himself Judgement Man
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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Mathematics Science
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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