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By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.

Immanuel Kant

War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
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Human Inspirational Love Man War
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
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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Children Patience Time Truth
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Break Up End Human
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
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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Act Judgement Life Result
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People
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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Animal Heart Himself Judgement Man
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right
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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