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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

Immanuel Kant

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
Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Easy Greatness Philosophy
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
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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Beyond Ourselves Regard Understand
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
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
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
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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Heaven Law Mindset Moral Myself
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself

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