Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
IMMANUEL KANTFreedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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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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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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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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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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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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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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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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