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Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.

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The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour, the more we love them, for we see how great is their care of the young.

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Do the right thing because it is right.

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This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impression on the public mind as the equally subtle objections brought against these truths. On the other hand, since both inevitably force themselves on every man who rises to the height of speculation, it becomes the manifest duty of the schools to enter upon a thorough investigation of the rights of speculative reason, and thus to prevent the scandal which metaphysical controversies are sure, sooner or later, to cause even to the masses.

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An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.

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The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity.

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A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral.

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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

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

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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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There is needed, no doubt, a body of servants (ministerium) of the invisible church, but not officials (officiales), in other words, teachers but not dignitaries, because in the rational religion of every individual there does not yet exist a church as a universal union (omnitudo collectiva).

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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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Reason can never prove the existence of God.

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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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This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function. Such governments are illuminated by the example that the existence of freedom need not give cause for the least concern regarding public order and harmony in the commonwealth. If only they refrain from inventing artifices to keep themselves in it, men will gradually raise themselves from barbarism.

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The sceptics, a kind of nomads, despising all settled culture of the land, broke up from time to time all civil society. Fortunately their number was small, and they could not prevent the old settlers from returning to cultivate the ground afresh, though without any fixed plan or agreement.

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

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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

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You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am

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Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

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