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Immanuel Kant

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
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
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
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Animal Heart Himself Judgement Man
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
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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Bad Philosophy Protection Weakness
Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Book Goodness Mindset Past Reading
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
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
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
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
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Beautiful Judgement Opinion
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
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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Art Beautiful Nature
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason

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