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It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.

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The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth

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At some future day it will be proved, I cannot say when and where, that the human soul is, while in earth life, already in an uninterrupted communication with those living in another world.

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If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.

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The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.

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The human heart refuses To believe in a universe Without a purpose.

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

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

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If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness.

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Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not everything

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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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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

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Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct; it acknowledges no limits to its projects. Reason itself does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order gradually to progress from one level of insight to another.

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

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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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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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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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With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.

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

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