Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law.

Immanuel Kant in Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Ethics
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Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

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

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

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From timber so crooked as that from which man is carved, nothing entirely straight can be made.

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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

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Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

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Genius is the innate mental predisposition (ingenium) through which nature gives the rule to art.

Immanuel Kant in Critique of Judgement, Fine Art Is the Art of Genius (1790)
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

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