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The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

Immanuel Kant

Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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Human Humanity Learning Peace
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power 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
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
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Man Moral Potential Purpose Reality Wild
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
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
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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Freedom Moral Willing Yourself
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Education Hope Lie Perfection
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
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Break Up End Human
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary

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