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

Immanuel Kant

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
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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Children Patience Time Truth
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
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
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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Art Beautiful Nature
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
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
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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Beyond Ourselves Regard Understand
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy

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