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The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

Immanuel Kant

From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
IMMANUEL KANT

Humanity Moral
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
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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Break End Human Race
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
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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Freedom Moral Willing Yourself
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
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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Existence Man Philosophy Reason
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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Human Humanity Learning Peace
What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Emotion Ourselves Relationship Separate
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
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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Happiness Moral Ourselves Self Love Worth
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.
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Animal Heart Himself Judgement Man
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual

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