All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
IMMANUEL KANTTreat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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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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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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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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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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