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

  Immanuel Kant

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Play

  "General Systems" Vol. 7-8, by he Society for the Advancement of General Systems Theory, (p. 11), 1962.

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• There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

  Immanuel Kant

  Doubt, Knowledge Experience, Knowledge And Experience

  Immanuel Kant (1855). “Critique of Pure Reason”, p.1

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• THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.

  Immanuel Kant

  Laughter, Mean, Two

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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.

  Immanuel Kant

  Knowledge, Understanding, Perception

  "Critique of Pure Reason" by Immanuel Kant, (B 730), (1781; 1787).

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• Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, People, Design

  Immanuel Kant, Victor Lyle Dowdell, Hans H. Rudnick (1996). “Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View”, p.217, SIU Press

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• The hand is the visible part of the brain.

  Immanuel Kant

  Hands, Brain, Visible

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• Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

  Immanuel Kant

  Immaturity, Enlightenment, Use

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• Maturity is having the courage to use one's own intelligence!

  Immanuel Kant

  Wisdom, Maturity, Use

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• Great minds think for themselves.

  Immanuel Kant

  Education, Thinking, Mind

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• In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

  Immanuel Kant

  Inspirational, Trust, Betrayal

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• The two great dividers are religion and LANGUAGE

  Immanuel Kant

  Two, Language

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• Look closely. The beautiful may be small.

  Immanuel Kant

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Looks

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• If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning.

  Immanuel Kant

  Justice, Earth, Lost

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• Do what is right, though the world may perish.

  Immanuel Kant

  World, May

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• For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.

  Immanuel Kant

  Earth, Reign, Firsts

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• The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

  Immanuel Kant

  War, Evil People, Tyranny

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• If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

  Immanuel Kant

  Philosophical, Men, Complaining

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• Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

  Immanuel Kant

  Philosophical, Intuition, Blind

  Immanuel Kant, Paul Guyer (1998). “Critique of Pure Reason”, p.50, Cambridge University Press

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• Laziness and cowardice explain why so many men. . . remain under a life-long tutelage and why it is so easy for some men to set themselves up as the guardians of all the rest. . . If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a doctor who decides my diet, I need not trouble myself. If I am willing to pay, I need not think. Others will do it for me.

  Immanuel Kant

  Book, Men, Thinking

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• Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

  Immanuel Kant

  Maturity, Divine Guidance, Intelligence

  "Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?" by Immanuel Kant, translated by Lewis White Beck, 1784.

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• Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

  Immanuel Kant

  Sublime, Melancholy, Superb

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• Man's duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself.

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, Law, Growth

  Immanuel Kant, Annette Churton (2003). “On Education”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.

  Immanuel Kant

  Mean, Compassion, People

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• Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.

  Immanuel Kant

  Reality, Space, Mind

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• There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise.

  Immanuel Kant

  Down And, Limits, Failing

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