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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.

Immanuel Kant

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
If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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God Man Philosophy Religion Talk
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
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
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
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
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
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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Act Judgement Life Result
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
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
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

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