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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.

Immanuel Kant

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
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Break Up End Human
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
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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Freedom God History Man Nature
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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God Goodness Herself Man Nature
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
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

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