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.
IMMANUEL KANTNothing 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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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Dare to think!
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The 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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The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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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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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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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 certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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