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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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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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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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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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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The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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To be is to do.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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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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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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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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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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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 is the opposite of necessity.
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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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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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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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