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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.

Immanuel Kant

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Animal Heart Himself Judgement Man
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Education Hope Lie Perfection
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Experience Mindset Reality Space Time
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
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Book Goodness Mindset Past Reading
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
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
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
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
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
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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Human Inspirational Love Man War
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich

Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.

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