"The human heart refuses To believe in a universe Without a purpose."
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"In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so."
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"The two great dividers are religion and LANGUAGE"
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"Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong."
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"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."
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"Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another."
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"Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens 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."
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"There is nothing higher than reason."
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"Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination."
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"If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death."
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"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."
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"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know!"
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"I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge."
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"Great minds think for themselves."
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"The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity."
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"The hand is the visible part of the brain."
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"Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck."
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"If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on."
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"All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us."
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"It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences."
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