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Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804), FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS
The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804), Critique of Practical Reason
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.: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804), The Science of Right
To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. ... For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804), FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS
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.: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804), CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804), CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
"Human reason is by nature architectonic.": Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804), CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
From timber so crooked as that from which man is carved, nothing entirely straight can be made.: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
The height of progress, when people’s propensity to strive for what is dispensable begins to interfere with what is indispensable, is called luxury.: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804), Critique of Judgment

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