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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Immanuel Kant

One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
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
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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Goodness Possible Willing World
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Emotion Ourselves Relationship Separate
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
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
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
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
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
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
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

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