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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

Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Experience Mindset Reality Space Time
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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Happiness Moral Ourselves Self Love Worth
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
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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End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Easy Greatness Philosophy
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Hands Perspective See
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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Goodness Impossible Philosophy Willing World
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Greatness Human Philosophy
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Justice People
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Beautiful See
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
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 great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Education Hope Lie Perfection
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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Freedom Moral Willing Yourself
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
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
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
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People

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