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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

Immanuel Kant

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
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
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right
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
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
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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Act Law Moral Time
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
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Book Goodness Mindset Past Reading

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