Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
IMMANUEL KANTHuman beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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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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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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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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By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with 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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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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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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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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