One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
IMMANUEL KANTFor peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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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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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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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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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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