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Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease

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Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.

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Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease... and throw himself into roils and labors.

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Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.

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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

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

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The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour, the more we love them, for we see how great is their care of the young.

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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

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The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.

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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

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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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If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself.

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Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the power of knowing an object through these representations (spontaneity [in the production] of concepts).

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Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.

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Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.

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Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

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

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

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[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.

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