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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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If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness.

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Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.

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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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The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend — and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him.

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[Aristotle formal logic thus far (1787)] has not been able to advance a single step, and hence is to all appearances closed and completed.

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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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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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There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.

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The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.

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The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

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Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification.

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Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.

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There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.

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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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Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?

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Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion.

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Art is purposiveness without purpose.

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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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It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err — not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all.

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