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Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.

Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.

Immanuel Kant
Race, Perfection, Humanity
"Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View". Book by Immanuel Kant, 1798.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

Immanuel Kant
Humanity, Made, Timber
"Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose" by Immanuel Kant, (Proposition 6), 1784.

Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.

Immanuel Kant
Mean, Humanity, Way

The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced.

Immanuel Kant
Blessing, Humanity, Existence

I learned to honor human beings, and I would find myself far more useless than the common laborer if I did not believe that this consideration could impart to all others a value establishing the rights of humanity.

Immanuel Kant
Believe, Rights, Humanity
Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be compelled to do by another is to adopt a particular end. - 'Metaphysical Principles of Virtue

Immanuel Kant
Adoption, Humanity, Principles
"Metaphysics of Morals". Book by Immanuel Kant, Part Two : Metaphysical Principles of Virtue, 1797.

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom.

Immanuel Kant
Freedom, Men, Humanity
Immanuel Kant (1836). “The Metaphysic of Ethics”, p.202

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.

Immanuel Kant
Men, Humanity, Force
Immanuel Kant (1836). “The Metaphysic of Ethics”, p.202

Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.

Immanuel Kant
Mean, Humanity, Use

Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.

Immanuel Kant
Humanity, Als, Made
'Idee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltbürgerlicher Absicht' (1784) proposition 6

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