Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
IMMANUEL KANTMan desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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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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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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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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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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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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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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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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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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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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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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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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