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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.

Immanuel Kant

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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Freedom Moral Willing Yourself
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
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
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Hands Perspective See
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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Feeling Life Live
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy Spiritual

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