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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Immanuel Kant

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
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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Act Law Moral Time
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
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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Goodness Impossible Philosophy Willing World
To be is to do.
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Action Existence
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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Happiness Moral Ourselves Self Love Worth
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
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
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
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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Heaven Law Mindset Moral Myself
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man

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