The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
IMMANUEL KANTHappiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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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.
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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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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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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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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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How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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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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Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
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