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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

The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Possible Willing World
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
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
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
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
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
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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Genius Independent Learning Person
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
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
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
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
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

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