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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 me and the moral law within me.

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There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.

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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.

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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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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

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

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

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Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

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What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?

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

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I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge.

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Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.

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It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

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Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking; instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones they replace, will serve as a leash for the great unthinking mass.

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Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.

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The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part of the American people.

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No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been made.

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Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

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

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Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.

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