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A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who rode horseback for two hours. An amusing lecture is as useful for health as the exercise of the body.

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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!

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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

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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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Honesty is better than any policy.

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When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any

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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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The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if it were a free play of the imagination; poetry that of conducting a free play of the imagination as if it were a serious business of the understanding.

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There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.

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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

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The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display a knowledge of it accomplish no improvement at all of the understanding, but only a perversity of it, not to mention that it serves most of them as a tool of vanity.

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A science of all these possible kinds of space [the higher dimensional ones] would undoubtedly be the highest enterprise which a finite understanding could undertake in the field of geometry... If it is possible that there could be regions with other dimensions, it is very likely that God has somewhere brought them into being.

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Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.

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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

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The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.

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The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part of the American people.

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[Aristotle formal logic thus far (1787)] has not been able to advance a single step, and hence is to all appearances closed and completed.

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Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease

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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

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The only thing that is good without qualification is a good will.

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