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

Immanuel Kant

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
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
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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Goodness Impossible Philosophy Willing World
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
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
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
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
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
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Man Moral Potential Purpose Reality Wild

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