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

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Maximum individuality within maximum community

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

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Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.

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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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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

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The human heart refuses To believe in a universe Without a purpose.

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Since the narrower or wider community of the peoples of the earth has developed so far that a violation of rights in one place is felt throughout the world, the idea of a cosmopolitan right is not fantastical, high-flown or exaggerated notion. It is a complement to the unwritten code of the civil and international law, necessary for the public rights of mankind in general and thus for the realization of perpetual peace.

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If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness.

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When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.

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

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I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself.

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Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?

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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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Do the right thing because it is right.

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Human reason has the peculiar fate in one species of its cognitions that it is burdened with questions which it cannot dismiss, since they are given to it as problems by the nature of reason itself, but which it also cannot answer, since they transcend every capacity of human reason.

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An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.

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Always regard every man as an end in himself, and never use him merely as a means to your ends [i.e., respect that each person has a life and purpose that is their own; do not treat people as objects to be exploited].

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