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.
IMMANUEL KANTAll human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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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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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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A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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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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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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