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Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.

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Do what is right, though the world may perish.

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If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.

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

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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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Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

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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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It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many a fog bank and ice, that soon melts away, tempt us to believe in new lands, while constantly deceiving the adventurous mariner with vain hopes, and involving him in adventures which he can never leave, yet never bring to an end.

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Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly.

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The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it could do even better in airless space. Likewise, Plato abandoned the world of the senses because it posed so many hindrances for the understanding, and dared to go beyond it on the wings of the ideas, in the empty space of pure understanding.

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Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.

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All trades, arts, and handiworks have gained by division of labor... Where the different kinds of work are not distinguished and divided, where everyone is a jack-of-all-trades, there manufactures remain still in the greatest barbarism.

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Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion may differ, the will of all is therefore not that of all: which is contradictory and opposite to liberty.

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Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

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Christianity possesses the great advantage over Judaism of being represented as coming from the mouth of the first Teacher not as a statutory but as a moral religion, and as thus entering into the closest relation with reason so that, through reason, it was able of itself, without historical learning, to be spread at all times and among all peoples with the greatest trustworthiness.

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A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

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

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Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

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