Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
IMMANUEL KANTFrom such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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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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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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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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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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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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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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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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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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The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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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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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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