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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

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In the metaphysical elements of aesthetics the various nonmoral feelings are to be made use of; in the elements of moral metaphysics the various moral feelings of men, according to the differences in sex, age, education, and government, of races and climates, are to be employed.

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The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

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The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.

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Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal.

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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

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Do what is right, though the world may perish.

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Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

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Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard.

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By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another ... has even less worth than if he were a mere thing. ... makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself.

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Here I shall add that the concept of change, and with it the concept of motion, as change of place, is possible only through and in the representation of time. & Motion, for example, presupposes the perception of something movable. But space considered in itself contains nothing movable; consequently motion must be something which is found in space only through experience -in other words, is an empirical datum.

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It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err — not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all.

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The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

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Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.

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Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as I am of the way in which the human spirit enters the world and the way in which he goes out of it, I dare not deny the truth of many such narratives.

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Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.

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In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.

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. . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws: and besides, feelings which naturally differ infinitely in degree cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has any one a right to form judgments for others by his own feelings. . . .

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God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.

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