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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.
Immanuel Kant
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What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.
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Act in such a way that you will be worthy of being happy.
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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.
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It is never too late to become reasonable and wise.
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour, the more we love them, for we see how great is their care of the young.
Immanuel Kant
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I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.
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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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Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings.
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I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge.
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Men will not understand … that when they fulfil their duties to men, they fulfil thereby God's commandments; that they are consequently always in the service of God, as long as their actions are moral, and that it is absolutely impossible to serve God otherwise.
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Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.
Immanuel Kant
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Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.
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If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.
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Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.
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Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained.
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Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected.
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Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.
Immanuel Kant
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Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.
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Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification.
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Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
Immanuel Kant