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Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner than however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to its present conditions. But they ought to give them an education so much better than this, that a better condition of things may thereby be brought about by the future.

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Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.

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Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected.

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God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.

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I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge.

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

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Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me... Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

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It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.

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Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.

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If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.

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

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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

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Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he should partake of no other happiness or perfection than that which he himself, independently of instinct, has created by his own reason.

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Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

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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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The hand is the visible part of the brain.

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It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences.

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Thinking in pictures precedes thinking in words.

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