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

Immanuel Kant

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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Act Judgement Life Result
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
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
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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Children Patience Time Truth
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
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
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Hands Perspective See
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Beautiful Judgement Opinion
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
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

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