Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
IMMANUEL KANTBy a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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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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It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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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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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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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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Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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