Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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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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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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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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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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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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By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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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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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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