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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

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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Human Humanity Learning Peace
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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Existence Man Philosophy Reason
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
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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Heaven Hope Human Laughter Sleep
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
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
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Animal Heart Himself Judgement Man
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
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
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
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
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

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