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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.

Immanuel Kant

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
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
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
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Freedom Man Release Religion
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
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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Freedom Moral Willing Yourself
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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Mathematics Science
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
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
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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Bad Philosophy Protection Weakness
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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Heaven Hope Human Laughter Sleep
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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Feeling Life Live
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary

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