Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
IMMANUEL KANTThe possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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To be is to do.
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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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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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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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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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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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