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

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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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Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said, 'War is an evil in as much as it produces more wicked men than it takes away.'

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

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...as soon as we examine suicide from the standpoint of religion we immediately see it in its true light. We have been placed in this world under certain conditions and for specific purposes. But a suicide opposes the purpose of his creator; he arrives in the other world as one who has deserted his post; he must be looked upon as a rebel against God. God is our owner; we are his property; his providence works for our good.

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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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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

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The only thing permanent is change.

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To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good - in all sorts of social grace and decorum. But to consider ourselves as having reached morality - for that, much is lacking.

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Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man.

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

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It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.

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The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.

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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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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

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Act in such a way that you will be worthy of being happy.

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Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner than however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to its present conditions. But they ought to give them an education so much better than this, that a better condition of things may thereby be brought about by the future.

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Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained.

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There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.

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