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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.

Immanuel Kant

The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity 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
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
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
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
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
What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Emotion Ourselves Relationship Separate
It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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Existence Man Philosophy Reason
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
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
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
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
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
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge Ourselves
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
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
Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Possible Willing World
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
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity

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