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Since the narrower or wider community of the peoples of the earth has developed so far that a violation of rights in one place is felt throughout the world, the idea of a cosmopolitan right is not fantastical, high-flown or exaggerated notion. It is a complement to the unwritten code of the civil and international law, necessary for the public rights of mankind in general and thus for the realization of perpetual peace.

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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

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The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a kind to satisfy this aim most completely.

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

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The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth

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If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some readers will be scared off by dryness. But isn't it necessary to scare off some if in their case the matter would end up in bad hands?

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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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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.

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The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world as if it originated from an all-sufficient necessary cause.

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All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.

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Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to whom he has done good.

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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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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

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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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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.

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Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.

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Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the power of knowing an object through these representations (spontaneity [in the production] of concepts).

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

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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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Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion.

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