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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

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Always regard every man as an end in himself, and never use him merely as a means to your ends [i.e., respect that each person has a life and purpose that is their own; do not treat people as objects to be exploited].

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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

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

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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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I feel a complete thirst for knowledge and an eager unrest to go further in it as well as satisfaction at every acquisition. There was a time when I believed that this alone could constitute the honor of mankind, and I had contempt for the ignorant rabble who know nothing.

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Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.

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Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose. To this single idea must the revolution be ascribed, by which, after groping in the dark for so many centuries, natural science was at length conducted into the path of certain progress.

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Reason can never prove the existence of God.

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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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Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.

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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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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

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But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.

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I am myself by inclination an investigator.

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

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

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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

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