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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

Immanuel Kant

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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Beyond Ourselves Regard Understand
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
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
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
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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Human Humanity Learning Peace
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself
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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Bad Philosophy Protection Weakness
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
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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Break End Human Race
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Education Hope Lie Perfection
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas

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