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

Immanuel Kant

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
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason 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
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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Act Law Moral Time
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Book Goodness Mindset Past Reading
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
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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Bad Philosophy Protection Weakness
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
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
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
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
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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Genius Independent Learning Person

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