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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

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The only thing that is good without qualification is a good will.

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Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument.

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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

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THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.

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Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.

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In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.

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Marriage...is the union of two people of different sexes with a view to the mutual possession of each other's sexual attributes for the duration of their lives.

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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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Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility

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Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination and cannot, therefore, be reckoned as virtues. Even though manners are no virtues, they are a means of developing virtue.... The more we refine the crude elements in our nature, the more we improve our humanity and the more capable it grows of feeling the driving force of virtuous principles.

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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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Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.

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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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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done

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

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Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.

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Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal.

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

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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!

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