The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
IMMANUEL KANTTreat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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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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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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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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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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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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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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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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