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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.

Immanuel Kant

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
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
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Act Judgement Life Result
Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine 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
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
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
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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Independent Man Understand
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
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
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
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

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