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

Immanuel Kant

If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
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
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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Heaven Law Mindset Moral Myself
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
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
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
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself
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
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
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
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
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
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
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
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
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
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Experience Mindset Reality Space Time
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself

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