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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

Immanuel Kant

It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
IMMANUEL KANT

Bad Perspective Philosophy
Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
IMMANUEL KANT

Goodness Possible Willing World
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
IMMANUEL KANT

Afraid Darkness Himself 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.
IMMANUEL KANT

Beyond Ourselves Regard Understand
What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
IMMANUEL KANT

Emotion Ourselves Relationship Separate
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
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
IMMANUEL KANT

Independent Man Understand
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
IMMANUEL KANT

Dignity Lie Man
Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
IMMANUEL KANT

Break End Human Race
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
IMMANUEL KANT

Humanity Philosophy
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
IMMANUEL KANT

Humanity Philosophy
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.
IMMANUEL KANT

Freedom God History Man Nature
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
IMMANUEL KANT

Philosophy Spiritual
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
IMMANUEL KANT

Book Goodness Mindset Past Reading
If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
IMMANUEL KANT

Justice Live Man Worth
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.
IMMANUEL KANT

Goodness Impossible Philosophy Willing World

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