All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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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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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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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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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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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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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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