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Men will not understand … that when they fulfil their duties to men, they fulfil thereby God's commandments; that they are consequently always in the service of God, as long as their actions are moral, and that it is absolutely impossible to serve God otherwise.

— Immanuel Kant

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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.

Critique of Pure Reason (1781)

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