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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

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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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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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A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who rode horseback for two hours. An amusing lecture is as useful for health as the exercise of the body.

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This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impression on the public mind as the equally subtle objections brought against these truths. On the other hand, since both inevitably force themselves on every man who rises to the height of speculation, it becomes the manifest duty of the schools to enter upon a thorough investigation of the rights of speculative reason, and thus to prevent the scandal which metaphysical controversies are sure, sooner or later, to cause even to the masses.

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An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.

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Do the right thing because it is right.

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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

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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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Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.

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Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable, which is infinitely worse than non-existence?

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The two great dividers are religion and LANGUAGE

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Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly.

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Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

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If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning.

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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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At some future day it will be proved, I cannot say when and where, that the human soul is, while in earth life, already in an uninterrupted communication with those living in another world.

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Human reason is by nature architectonic.

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Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to no law according to which any calculation could be made beforehand of their amount; and yet the yearly registers of these events in great countries prove that they go on with as much conformity to the laws of nature as the oscillations of the weather.

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