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• Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
• The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the mind cannot…
• Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in…
• Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up…
• It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often…
• The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.
• People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a…
• Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.
• One truly understands only what one can create.
• The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express…
• Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.
• The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

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