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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

Immanuel Kant

If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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Feeling Life Live
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
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
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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End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
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
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
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
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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God Man Philosophy Religion Talk

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