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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

Immanuel Kant

Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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Bad Philosophy Protection Weakness
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
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
Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Easy Greatness Philosophy
The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
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Act Judgement Life Result
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.
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Man Moral Potential Purpose Reality Wild
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People
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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Human Inspirational Love Man War
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge Ourselves

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

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