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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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Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

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A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.

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

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Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking; instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones they replace, will serve as a leash for the great unthinking mass.

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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

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Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience.

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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

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cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.

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Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.

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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

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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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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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Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes

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Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose. To this single idea must the revolution be ascribed, by which, after groping in the dark for so many centuries, natural science was at length conducted into the path of certain progress.

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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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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.

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The only thing permanent is change.

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Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representations of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind.

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