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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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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

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

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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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Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.

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Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.

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God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.

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The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display a knowledge of it accomplish no improvement at all of the understanding, but only a perversity of it, not to mention that it serves most of them as a tool of vanity.

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Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. Her giving to man reason and the freedom of the will which depends upon it is clear indication of her purpose. Man accordingly was not to be guided by instinct, not nurtured and instructed with ready-made knowledge; rather, he should bring forth everything out of his own resources.

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Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be compelled to do by another is to adopt a particular end. - 'Metaphysical Principles of Virtue

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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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I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

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The only thing permanent is change.

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The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable of the greatest happiness.

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Do the right thing because it is right.

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

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The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.

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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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