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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

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Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.

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[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.

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Reason can never prove the existence of God.

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Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard.

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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.

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Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.

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Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning abilities. It takes intellectual daring to discover the truth.

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The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.

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Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination and cannot, therefore, be reckoned as virtues. Even though manners are no virtues, they are a means of developing virtue.... The more we refine the crude elements in our nature, the more we improve our humanity and the more capable it grows of feeling the driving force of virtuous principles.

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By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

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

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All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end.

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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

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Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes

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A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

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Human reason is by nature architectonic.

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Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as I am of the way in which the human spirit enters the world and the way in which he goes out of it, I dare not deny the truth of many such narratives.

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The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.

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