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The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

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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 and the moral law within.

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cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.

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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

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

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Thinking in pictures precedes thinking in words.

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It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless.

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

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Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom.

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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

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All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end.

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[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.

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When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.

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

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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.

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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

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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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Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

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Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling to the people for not having insisted upon this punishment; for otherwise the people can be regarded as collaborators in his public violation of justice.

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