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

Immanuel Kant

Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
IMMANUEL KANT

Break Up End People
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
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
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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Heaven Law Mindset Moral Myself
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
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
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
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
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
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
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Man Moral Potential Purpose Reality Wild
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

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