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

Immanuel Kant

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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Art Beautiful Nature
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
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
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
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
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Book Goodness Mindset Past Reading
It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Impossible Philosophy Willing World
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
To be is to do.
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Action Existence
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
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
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Education Hope Lie Perfection
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People
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
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

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

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