One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
IMMANUEL KANTAn action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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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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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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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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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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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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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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