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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.

Immanuel Kant

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
The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Hands Perspective See
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Break Up End Human
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
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
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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Freedom God History Man Nature
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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Happiness Moral Ourselves Self Love Worth
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Freedom Man Release Religion
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
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
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power 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
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
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
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
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 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
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand

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