All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
IMMANUEL KANTHeaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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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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If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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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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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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To be is to do.
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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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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Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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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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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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