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Immanuel Kant

Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
IMMANUEL KANT

Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
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
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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Happiness Moral Ourselves Self Love Worth
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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Freedom God History Man Nature
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Greatness Human Philosophy
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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Goodness Possible Willing World
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
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
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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Independent Man Understand
It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Impossible Philosophy Willing World
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason

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