Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
IMMANUEL KANTHappiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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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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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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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.
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Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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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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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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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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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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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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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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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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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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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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To be is to do.
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A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Dare to think!
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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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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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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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