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Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

Immanuel Kant

Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Greatness Human Philosophy
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
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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End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
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
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
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
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
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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Break End Human Race
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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Goodness Possible Willing World
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason

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