If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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To be is to do.
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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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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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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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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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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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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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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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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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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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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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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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