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Human reason is by nature architectonic.
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All our knowledge falls with the bounds of experience.
Immanuel Kant
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Do the right thing because it is right.
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Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument.
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All perception is colored by emotion.
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Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
Immanuel Kant
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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
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Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.
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The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.
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A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
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Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.
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So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Immanuel Kant
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it is absurd … to hope that maybe another Newton may some day arise, to make intelligible to us even the genesis of but a blade of grass ('Dialectic of Teleological Judgment' §75)
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All natural philosophers, who wished to proceed mathematically in their work, have hence invariably (although unknown to themselves) made use of metaphysical principles, and must make use of such, it matters not how energetically they may otherwise repudiate any claim of metaphysics on their science.
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Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.
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The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.
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Do what is right, though the world may perish.
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I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Immanuel Kant
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Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he should partake of no other happiness or perfection than that which he himself, independently of instinct, has created by his own reason.
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But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.
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I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy.
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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
Immanuel Kant