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The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.

Immanuel Kant

Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
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
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
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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Man Moral Potential Purpose Reality Wild
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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Heaven Hope Human Laughter Sleep
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
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself
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
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
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
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge Ourselves
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
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
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Beautiful Judgement Opinion
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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Mathematics Science
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
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
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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Independent Man Understand

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