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

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All appearances are real and negatio; sophistical: All reality must be sensation.

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It is never too late to become reasonable and wise.

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

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

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Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.

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We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

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It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

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But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained, as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts of useful utensils, and so on, any regularity that has an air of constraint is [to be] avoided as much as possible. That is why the English taste in gardens, or the baroque taste in furniture, carries the imagination's freedom very far, even to the verge of the grotesque, because it is precisely this divorce from any constraint of a rule that the case is posited where taste can show its greatest perfection in designs made by the imagination.

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The human heart refuses To believe in a universe Without a purpose.

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The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

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Always regard every man as an end in himself, and never use him merely as a means to your ends [i.e., respect that each person has a life and purpose that is their own; do not treat people as objects to be exploited].

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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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Maturity is having the courage to use one's own intelligence!

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Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

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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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I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

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