But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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.
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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.