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.
IMMANUEL KANTWhat might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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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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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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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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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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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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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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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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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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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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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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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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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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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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