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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.

Immanuel Kant

Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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Genius Independent Learning Person
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
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
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
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
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Greatness Human Philosophy
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
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Act Judgement Life Result
Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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God Goodness Herself Man Nature
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

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