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Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

Immanuel Kant

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
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
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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Happiness Moral Ourselves Self Love Worth
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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Genius Independent Learning Person
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
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
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Experience Mindset Reality Space Time
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
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
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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God Goodness Herself Man Nature
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
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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Independent Man Understand
To be is to do.
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Action Existence
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself

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