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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.

Immanuel Kant

The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
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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Act Law Moral Time
The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
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Act Judgement Life Result
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge Ourselves
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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Mathematics Science
Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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God Goodness Herself Man Nature
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right
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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Break End Human Race
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
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
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
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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Children Patience Time Truth

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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