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.
IMMANUEL KANTFrom such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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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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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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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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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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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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Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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