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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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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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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

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Laziness and cowardice explain why so many men. . . remain under a life-long tutelage and why it is so easy for some men to set themselves up as the guardians of all the rest. . . If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a doctor who decides my diet, I need not trouble myself. If I am willing to pay, I need not think. Others will do it for me.

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All trades, arts, and handiworks have gained by division of labor... Where the different kinds of work are not distinguished and divided, where everyone is a jack-of-all-trades, there manufactures remain still in the greatest barbarism.

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Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

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Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

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What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.

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Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not everything

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Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.

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Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to whom he has done good.

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Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected.

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Maturity is having the courage to use one's own intelligence!

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Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

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Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray.

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There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise.

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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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All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.

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Notion without intuition is empty, intuition without notion is blind.

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

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