Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
IMMANUEL KANTAll so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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To be is to do.
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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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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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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Dare to think!
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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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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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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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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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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The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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