An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
IMMANUEL KANTOnly the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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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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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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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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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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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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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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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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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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