The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
IMMANUEL KANTYou must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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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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Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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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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It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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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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It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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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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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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