The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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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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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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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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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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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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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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