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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.

Immanuel Kant

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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Act Judgement Life Result
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
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
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
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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Independent Man Understand
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
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.
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Man Moral Potential Purpose Reality Wild
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Animal Heart Himself Judgement Man
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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Children Patience Time Truth
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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Act Law Moral Time

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