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Human reason is by nature architectonic.
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Do the right thing because it is right.
Immanuel Kant
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All our knowledge falls with the bounds of experience.
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Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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All perception is colored by emotion.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.
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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.
Immanuel Kant
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Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.
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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.
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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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Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument.
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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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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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I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
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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.
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Do what is right, though the world may perish.
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Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.
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Es ist so bequem, unmündig zu sein. Habe ich ein Buch, das für mich Verstand hat, einen Seelsorger, der für mich Gewissen hat, einen Arzt, der für mich die Diät beurtheilt u. s. w., so brauche ich mich ja nicht selbst zu bemühen. Ich habe nicht nöthig zu denken, wenn ich nur bezahlen kann.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?
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