Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
IMMANUEL KANTSettle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational 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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Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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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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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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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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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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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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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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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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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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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 certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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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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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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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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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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