He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
IMMANUEL KANTHappiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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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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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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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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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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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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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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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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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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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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