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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.

Immanuel Kant

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
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself
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
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
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
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
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
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
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
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Animal Heart Himself Judgement Man
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Book Goodness Mindset Past Reading
The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Freedom Man Release Religion
Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right
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
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
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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Art Beautiful Nature
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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Feeling Life Live

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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