All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
IMMANUEL KANTFrom such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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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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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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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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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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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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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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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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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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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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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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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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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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