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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
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
To be is to do.
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Action Existence
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
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
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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Heaven Law Mindset Moral Myself
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
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
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
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

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