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

Immanuel Kant

We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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Heaven Law Mindset Moral Myself
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Beautiful Judgement Opinion
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
To be is to do.
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Action Existence
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
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
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy Spiritual
How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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Beyond Ourselves Regard Understand
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason

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