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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

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Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.

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Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable, which is infinitely worse than non-existence?

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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

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In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence the theory of natural religion can be true only where there is no science; therefore it cannot bind all men together.

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Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.

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Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man.

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Here I shall add that the concept of change, and with it the concept of motion, as change of place, is possible only through and in the representation of time. & Motion, for example, presupposes the perception of something movable. But space considered in itself contains nothing movable; consequently motion must be something which is found in space only through experience -in other words, is an empirical datum.

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All trades, arts, and handiworks have gained by division of labor... Where the different kinds of work are not distinguished and divided, where everyone is a jack-of-all-trades, there manufactures remain still in the greatest barbarism.

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Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.

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Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.

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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

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So act that anything you do may become universal law.

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Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct; it acknowledges no limits to its projects. Reason itself does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order gradually to progress from one level of insight to another.

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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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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 me and the moral law within me.

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THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.

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Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.

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Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.

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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

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