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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.

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
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
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
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
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
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
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
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Animal Heart Himself Judgement Man
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Greatness Human Philosophy
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
Two 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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Heaven Law Mindset Moral Myself
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity

All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.

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