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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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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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Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.

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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

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

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THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.

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Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument.

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

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Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.

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The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity.

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Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.

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We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.

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All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

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A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the human race must be regarded as possible and, indeed, as contributing to this end of Nature.

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The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend — and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him.

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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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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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Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.

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