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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

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Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as I am of the way in which the human spirit enters the world and the way in which he goes out of it, I dare not deny the truth of many such narratives.

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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

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That Logic has advanced in this sure course, even from the earliest times, is apparent from the fact that, since Aristotle, it has been unable to advance a step, and thus to all appearance has reached its completion.

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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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Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he should partake of no other happiness or perfection than that which he himself, independently of instinct, has created by his own reason.

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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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A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.

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What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.

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Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said, 'War is an evil in as much as it produces more wicked men than it takes away.'

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God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.

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The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

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Maximum individuality within maximum community

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Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained.

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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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I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.

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There is nothing higher than reason.

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

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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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The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend — and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him.

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