An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
IMMANUEL KANTHow things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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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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Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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