For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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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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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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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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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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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