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Immanuel Kant

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Break Up End Human
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
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
Nothing 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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Goodness Possible Willing World
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
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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End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
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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Freedom God History Man Nature
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
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
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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God Man Philosophy Religion Talk
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
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
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Experience Mindset Reality Space Time
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Greatness Human Philosophy

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