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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

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Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.

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The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.

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

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[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he still has the resources to be beneficent to those suffering distress, but the distress of others does not touch him because he is sufficiently busy with his own; and now, where no inclination any longer stimulates him to it, he tears himself out of his deadly insensibility and does the action without any inclination, solely from duty.

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Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.

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Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained.

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Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.

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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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So act that anything you do may become universal law.

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Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not everything

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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

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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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There is nothing higher than reason.

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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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All appearances have a determinate magnitude (the relation of which to another assignable). The infinite does not appear as such, likewise not the simple. For the appearances are included between two boundaries (points) and are thus themselves determinate magnitudes.

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Honesty is better than any policy.

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

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The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.

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Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.

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