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- All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
- Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all…
- The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world…
- We come no nearer the infinitude of the creative power of God, if we enclose the space of its revelation within a sphere described with…
- If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some…
- [S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he…
- It is through education that all the good in the world arises.
- Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion may…
- Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable, which is infinitely…
- But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts…
- There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
- Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct; it…
- All our knowledge begins with the senses,
- Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.
- Natural science physics contains in itself synthetical judgments a priori, as principles. ... Space then is a necessary representation a priori, which serves for the…
- That Logic has advanced in this sure course, even from the earliest times, is apparent from the fact that, since Aristotle, it has been unable…
- [Aristotle formal logic thus far (1787)] has not been able to advance a single step, and hence is to all appearances closed and completed.
- The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation. But it is…
- Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity...No thing is required for this enlightenment.. .except freedom; and the freedom in question is the least harmful…
- Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature…
- Even the song of birds, which we can bring under no musical rule, seems to have more freedom, and therefore more for taste, than a…
- It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err — not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge…
- The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about…
- An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.
- If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and in outer actions,…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle