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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.
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
Two things fill me with constantly increasing admiration and awe, the longer and more earnestly I reflect on them: the starry heavens without and the moral law within.
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe - the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?