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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

Immanuel Kant

Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
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
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
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
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
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
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
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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Goodness Impossible Philosophy Willing World
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Easy Greatness Philosophy
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
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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Children Patience Time Truth

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