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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

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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Existence Man Philosophy Reason
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
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
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
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
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
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
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
Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Possible Willing World
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself 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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