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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.

Immanuel Kant

All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
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
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
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
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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Happiness Moral Ourselves Self Love Worth
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge Ourselves
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
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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Children Patience Time Truth
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
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
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Greatness Human Philosophy

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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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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