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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.

Immanuel Kant

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
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Break Up End Human
If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy Spiritual
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
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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Human Humanity Learning Peace
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
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
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
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man

All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.

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