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

Immanuel Kant

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
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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Mathematics Science
The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Hands Perspective See
Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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Heaven Hope Human Laughter Sleep
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
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Break Up End Human
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
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
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
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Animal Heart Himself Judgement Man
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Greatness Human Philosophy
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
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity 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.
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Beyond Ourselves Regard Understand
Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Easy Greatness Philosophy
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Control Man One Liner Woman
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See

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