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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

Immanuel Kant

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
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
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
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
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
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
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
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
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
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
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
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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Art Beautiful Nature
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking

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