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Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.

Immanuel Kant

Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science 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
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People
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
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
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
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
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
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
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
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
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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Act Law Moral Time
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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Beyond Ourselves Regard Understand
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
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
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
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
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

Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.

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