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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

If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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God Man Philosophy Religion Talk
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
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
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
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
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
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
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth

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