"It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err — not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all."
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"Prudence approaches, conscience accuses."
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"He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray"
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"Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism."
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"Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic)"
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"I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law."
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"The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a kind to satisfy this aim most completely."
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"By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another ... has even less worth than if he were a mere thing. ... makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself."
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"In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion."
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"Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity."
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"The sceptics, a kind of nomads, despising all settled culture of the land, broke up from time to time all civil society. Fortunately their number was small, and they could not prevent the old settlers from returning to cultivate the ground afresh, though without any fixed plan or agreement."
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"Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law."
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"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise."
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"Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts."
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"Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility"
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"What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others."
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"For how is it possible, says that acute man, that when a concept is given me, I can go beyond it and connect with it another which is not contained in it, in such a manner as if that latter necessarily belonged to the former?"
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"When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward."
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"The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty."
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"Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime."
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