Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Dare to think!
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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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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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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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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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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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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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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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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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