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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.

Immanuel Kant

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

Law Moral Respect Simplicity
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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Happiness Moral Ourselves Self Love Worth
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
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
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
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
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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Business Greatness Material Reason
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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Genius Independent Learning Person
If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth
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 beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Beautiful Judgement Opinion
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself

From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.

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