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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

Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
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
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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Children Patience Time Truth
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
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
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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Bad Philosophy Protection Weakness
It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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Existence Man Philosophy Reason
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
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
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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Mathematics Science
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
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
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Beautiful Judgement Opinion
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
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
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Emotion Ourselves Relationship Separate
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Education Hope Lie Perfection
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
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason

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