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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

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
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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Animal Heart Himself Judgement Man
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
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
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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Human Humanity Learning Peace
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
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
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge

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