"Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience."
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"When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any"
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"Marriage...is the union of two people of different sexes with a view to the mutual possession of each other's sexual attributes for the duration of their lives."
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"Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature."
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"Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he has done good. When, therefore, it is said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," it is not meant, thou shalt love him first and do him good in consequence of that love, but, thou shalt do good to thy neighbor; and this thy beneficence will engender in thee that love to mankind which is the fulness and consummation of the inclination to do good."
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"Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience."
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"God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason."
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"God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system."
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"Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion."
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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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"Maximum individuality within maximum community"
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"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within."
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"Human reason is by nature architectonic."
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"If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism."
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"Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?"
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"Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument."
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"Do what is right, though the world may perish."
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"Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites."
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"Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori."
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"Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt."
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