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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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Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.

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The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation. But it is one of the worthiest inquiries to see how far our reason can go in the knowledge of God.

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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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In the mere concept of one thing it cannot be found any character of its existence.

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It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err — not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all.

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A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.

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An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.

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Act in such a way that you will be worthy of being happy.

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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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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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Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be compelled to do by another is to adopt a particular end. - 'Metaphysical Principles of Virtue

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Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

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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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Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.

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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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All our knowledge begins with the senses...

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...as soon as we examine suicide from the standpoint of religion we immediately see it in its true light. We have been placed in this world under certain conditions and for specific purposes. But a suicide opposes the purpose of his creator; he arrives in the other world as one who has deserted his post; he must be looked upon as a rebel against God. God is our owner; we are his property; his providence works for our good.

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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

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Natural science physics contains in itself synthetical judgments a priori, as principles. ... Space then is a necessary representation a priori, which serves for the foundation of all external intuitions.

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