One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
IMMANUEL KANTThe 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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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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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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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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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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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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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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If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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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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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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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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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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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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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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Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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How 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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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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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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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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