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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.

Immanuel Kant

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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Goodness Impossible Philosophy Willing World
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Emotion Ourselves Relationship Separate
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
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
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
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
War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
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Human Inspirational Love Man War
The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Freedom Man Release Religion
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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Heaven Hope Human Laughter Sleep
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

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