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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.

Immanuel Kant

All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
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
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
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
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 enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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Freedom Moral Willing Yourself
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

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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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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