The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
IMMANUEL KANTNever wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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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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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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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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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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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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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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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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