I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
IMMANUEL KANTWithout 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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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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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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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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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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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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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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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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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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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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