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Critique of Practical Reason
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A philosophical exploration of practical reason and moral philosophy by Immanuel Kant.

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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Immanuel Kant

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Man is the only being who needs education.

Immanuel Kant

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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

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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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A man who is devoid of blind belief, who loves to dwell in the realm of eternal truth, who is free from all attachment, who rejoices in the eternal, who is steadfast and surrenders his whole being to the supreme truth, attains to the source of truth.

Immanuel Kant

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To be is to do.

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Immanuel Kant

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

Immanuel Kant

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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

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The only thing that can be called good, without qualification, is a good will.

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