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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

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
You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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Freedom Moral Willing Yourself
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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Goodness Impossible Philosophy Willing World
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
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
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
To be is to do.
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Action Existence
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
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
What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Emotion Ourselves Relationship Separate
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
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
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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Independent Man Understand
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Break Up End Human
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity 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
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
If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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God Man Philosophy Religion Talk
If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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God Goodness Herself Man Nature
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective 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

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