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

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The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.

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Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.

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Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning abilities. It takes intellectual daring to discover the truth.

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Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

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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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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.

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Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument.

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Honesty is better than any policy.

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Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic)

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

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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

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The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.

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Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.

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The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part of the American people.

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The desire which a man has for a woman is not directed towards her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman ; that she is a human being is of no concern to the man; only her sex is the object of his desires.

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I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge.

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Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained.

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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

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This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impression on the public mind as the equally subtle objections brought against these truths. On the other hand, since both inevitably force themselves on every man who rises to the height of speculation, it becomes the manifest duty of the schools to enter upon a thorough investigation of the rights of speculative reason, and thus to prevent the scandal which metaphysical controversies are sure, sooner or later, to cause even to the masses.

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