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"Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs."
"Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose."
"Look closely. The beautiful may be small."
"I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief."
"All perception is colored by emotion."
"Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not everything"
"Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me."
"Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."
"Always regard every man as an end in himself, and never use him merely as a means to your ends [i.e., respect that each person has a life and purpose that is their own; do not treat people as objects to be exploited]."
"For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first."
"Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality."
"Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law."
"The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never."
"Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning abilities. It takes intellectual daring to discover the truth."
"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."
"THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter."
"It is never too late to become reasonable and wise."
"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."
"A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose."
"Laziness and cowardice explain why so many men. . . remain under a life-long tutelage and why it is so easy for some men to set themselves up as the guardians of all the rest. . . If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a doctor who decides my diet, I need not trouble myself. If I am willing to pay, I need not think. Others will do it for me."