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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.

Immanuel Kant

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Break Up End Human
The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Freedom Man Release Religion
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
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
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Hands Perspective See
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
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
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
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
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
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
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
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge Ourselves

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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