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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.

Immanuel Kant

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Break Up End Human
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
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
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
The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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Freedom God History Man Nature
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
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
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy Spiritual
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
To be is to do.
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Action Existence
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich

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