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The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.

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[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.

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All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end.

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Man's duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself.

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Notion without intuition is empty, intuition without notion is blind.

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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.

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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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To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. . . . For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.

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Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.

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Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray.

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I am myself by inclination an investigator.

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At some future day it will be proved, I cannot say when and where, that the human soul is, while in earth life, already in an uninterrupted communication with those living in another world.

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

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There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise.

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I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

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

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All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

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Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

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Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.

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