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.
IMMANUEL KANTLaughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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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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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Dare to think!
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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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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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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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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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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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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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