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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

Immanuel Kant

From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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Act Law Moral Time
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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Feeling Life Live
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
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 enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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Heaven Hope Human Laughter Sleep
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Book Goodness Mindset Past Reading
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

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