"Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)"
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"Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said, 'War is an evil in as much as it produces more wicked men than it takes away.'"
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"Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected."
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"All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas."
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"If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and in outer actions, that every, even the least, incentive to these actions and all external occasions which affect them were so known to us that his future conduct could be predicted with as great a certainty as the occurrence of a solar or lunar eclipse, we could nevertheless still assert that the man is free."
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"Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them."
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"One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity."
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"A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral."
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"Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!"
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"Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person."
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"Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end."
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"Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt"
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"By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man."
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"Honesty is better than any policy."
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"Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity."
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"It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably."
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"The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour, the more we love them, for we see how great is their care of the young."
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"The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience"
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"Thinking in pictures precedes thinking in words."
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"Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name."
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