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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.

Immanuel Kant

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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Human Inspirational Love Man War
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
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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Freedom God History Man Nature
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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Bad Philosophy Protection Weakness
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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Beyond Ourselves Regard Understand
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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Business Greatness Material Reason
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Break Up End Human
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Education Hope Lie Perfection
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man

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