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To be is to do.

Immanuel Kant

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
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy Spiritual
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
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
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People
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
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
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
A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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Business Greatness Material Reason
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
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
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
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
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy

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