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.
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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A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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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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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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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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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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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
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Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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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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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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