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A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

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All appearances have a determinate magnitude (the relation of which to another assignable). The infinite does not appear as such, likewise not the simple. For the appearances are included between two boundaries (points) and are thus themselves determinate magnitudes.

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The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.

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Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.

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Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

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Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence.

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I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.

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It is never too late to become reasonable and wise.

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Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.

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All our knowledge falls with the bounds of experience.

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Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.

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Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience.

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Both love of mankind, and respect for their rights are duties; the former however is only a conditional, the latter an unconditional, purely imperative duty, which he must be perfectly certain not to have transgressed who would give himself up to the secret emotions arising from benevolence.

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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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It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless.

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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

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Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner than however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to its present conditions. But they ought to give them an education so much better than this, that a better condition of things may thereby be brought about by the future.

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Maximum individuality within maximum community

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We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

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