This motive not just because it is the only one that can be the basis of a character (a consistent practical way of thinking according to unchangeable maxims), but also because it teaches the human being to feel his own dignity gives to his mind a power, unexpected even by himself, to tear himself away from all sensible attachment insofar as this attachment wants to becomedominant, and to find rich compensation for the sacrifices that he makes in the independence of his intelligible bel.