An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
IMMANUEL KANTSince 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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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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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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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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The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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To be is to do.
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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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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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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