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A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the human race must be regarded as possible and, indeed, as contributing to this end of Nature.

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Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It is because of laziness and cowardice that it is so easy for others to usurp the role of guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor!

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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.

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Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

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If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.

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A science of all these possible kinds of space [the higher dimensional ones] would undoubtedly be the highest enterprise which a finite understanding could undertake in the field of geometry... If it is possible that there could be regions with other dimensions, it is very likely that God has somewhere brought them into being.

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Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.

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Things which we see are not by themselves what we see ... It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may be by themselves and apart from the receptivity of our senses. We know nothing but our manner of perceiving them.

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The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if it were a free play of the imagination; poetry that of conducting a free play of the imagination as if it were a serious business of the understanding.

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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

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Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.

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Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

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

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One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.

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The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth

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I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.

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It is often necessary to make a decision on the basis of knowledge sufficient for action but insufficient to satisfy the intellect.

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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.

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