Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
IMMANUEL KANTMorality 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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There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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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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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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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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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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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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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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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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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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