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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

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.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

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

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

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.

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.

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

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

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

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.