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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.

Immanuel Kant

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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Break End Human Race
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
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
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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Beyond Ourselves Regard Understand
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge Ourselves
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People
There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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Bad Philosophy Protection Weakness
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Education Hope Lie Perfection
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason

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