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Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion.

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Laziness and cowardice explain why so many men. . . remain under a life-long tutelage and why it is so easy for some men to set themselves up as the guardians of all the rest. . . If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a doctor who decides my diet, I need not trouble myself. If I am willing to pay, I need not think. Others will do it for me.

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Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.

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No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been made.

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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

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God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.

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Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal.

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Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.

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

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The sceptics, a kind of nomads, despising all settled culture of the land, broke up from time to time all civil society. Fortunately their number was small, and they could not prevent the old settlers from returning to cultivate the ground afresh, though without any fixed plan or agreement.

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A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the human race must be regarded as possible and, indeed, as contributing to this end of Nature.

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Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.

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Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.

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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

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The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.

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There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.

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It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.

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Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.

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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

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Do the right thing because it is right.

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