Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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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The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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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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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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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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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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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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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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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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But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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