One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
IMMANUEL KANTTreat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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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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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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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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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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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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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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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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To be is to do.
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