Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
IMMANUEL KANTFrom such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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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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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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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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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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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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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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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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Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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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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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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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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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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