All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
IMMANUEL KANTYou must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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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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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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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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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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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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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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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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