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By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.

Immanuel Kant

If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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God Man Philosophy Religion Talk
It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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Existence Man Philosophy Reason
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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Break End Human Race
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
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Man Moral Potential Purpose Reality Wild
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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Human Humanity Learning Peace
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Freedom Man Release Religion
War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
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Human Inspirational Love Man War
Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Possible Willing World
The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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Freedom God History Man Nature
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People
The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
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Act Judgement Life Result
You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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Freedom Moral Willing Yourself

By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.

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