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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

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The desire which a man has for a woman is not directed towards her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman ; that she is a human being is of no concern to the man; only her sex is the object of his desires.

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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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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

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What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?

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

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Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.

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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

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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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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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If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself.

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If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.

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It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err — not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all.

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The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.

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Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

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

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The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable of the greatest happiness.

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