Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
IMMANUEL KANTAll human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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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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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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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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