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The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

— Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason (1781)

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

Critique of Practical Reason (1788)

Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly.

There must be a seed of every good thing in the character of men, otherwise no one can bring it out.

The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant (1904)

Natural science is throughout either a pure or an applied doctrine of motion.

Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (1786)

That all our knowledge begins with experience there can be no doubt.

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