One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
IMMANUEL KANTNothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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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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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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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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Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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To be is to do.
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The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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