A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the human race must be regarded as possible and, indeed, as contributing to this end of Nature.
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Citations by Immanuel Kant
Man has his own inclinations and a natural will which, in his actions, by means of his free choice, he follows and directs. There can be nothing more dreadful than that the actions of one man should be subject to the will of another; hence no abhorrence can be more natural than that which a man has for slavery. And it is for this reason that a child cries and becomes embittered when he must do what others wish, when no one has taken the trouble to make it agreeable to him. He wants to be a man soon, so that he can do as he himself likes.
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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
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The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend — and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him. The uses of prayer are thus only subjective.
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By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Posted by: Marianna Mansueto
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Reasonable beings are called people because their nature indicates them as an end in themselves, meaning like someting that cannot be used simply as a means.
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Posted by: MesaQueen
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Act as is if every act is worthy of becoming a memory.
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Posted by: Francesco Pierri
A good will is one that acts from duty in accordance with the universal moral law.
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Posted by: Luca Englaro
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Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another. Sapere Aude! "Have courage to use your own understanding!"-that is the motto of enlightenment.
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Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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