"Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard."
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"Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings"
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"Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end."
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"Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself."
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"Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation a priori."
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"This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function. Such governments are illuminated by the example that the existence of freedom need not give cause for the least concern regarding public order and harmony in the commonwealth. If only they refrain from inventing artifices to keep themselves in it, men will gradually raise themselves from barbarism."
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"Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not been of much value to the human understanding. It is a dialectic and an organon for the art of disputation."
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"Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as I am of the way in which the human spirit enters the world and the way in which he goes out of it, I dare not deny the truth of many such narratives."
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"Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer."
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"If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness."
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"The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does."
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"Reason can never prove the existence of God."
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"Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form."
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"Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed."
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"Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful."
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"Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent."
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"An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty."
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"Christianity possesses the great advantage over Judaism of being represented as coming from the mouth of the first Teacher not as a statutory but as a moral religion, and as thus entering into the closest relation with reason so that, through reason, it was able of itself, without historical learning, to be spread at all times and among all peoples with the greatest trustworthiness."
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"The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed."
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"The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away."
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