Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
IMMANUEL KANTWe can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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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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Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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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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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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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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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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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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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 certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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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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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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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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