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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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God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.

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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

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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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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

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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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The two great dividers are religion and LANGUAGE

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In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.

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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

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Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

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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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Reason can never prove the existence of God.

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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.

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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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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

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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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Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.

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Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

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