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.
IMMANUEL KANTThe history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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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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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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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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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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