All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
IMMANUEL KANTTwo 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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The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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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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Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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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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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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