Art is purposiveness without purpose.
IMMANUEL KANTHuman beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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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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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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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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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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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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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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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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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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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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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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