One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
IMMANUEL KANTTwo 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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There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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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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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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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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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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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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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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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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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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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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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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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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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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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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