Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
IMMANUEL KANTThe 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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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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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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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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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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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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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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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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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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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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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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