The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
IMMANUEL KANTTreat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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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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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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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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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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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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The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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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.
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