Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
IMMANUEL KANTWithout 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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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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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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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.
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It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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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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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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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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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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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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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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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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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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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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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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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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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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