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Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representations of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind.

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The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world as if it originated from an all-sufficient necessary cause.

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By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

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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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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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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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The hand is the visible part of the brain.

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The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.

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A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral.

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All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

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Reason can never prove the existence of God.

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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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Human reason has the peculiar fate in one species of its cognitions that it is burdened with questions which it cannot dismiss, since they are given to it as problems by the nature of reason itself, but which it also cannot answer, since they transcend every capacity of human reason.

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

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

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

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Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

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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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I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy.

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