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.
IMMANUEL KANTIt is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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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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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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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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Dare to think!
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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To be is to do.
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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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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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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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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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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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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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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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