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.
IMMANUEL KANTGive me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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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.
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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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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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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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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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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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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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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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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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