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Found in the topic Humanitarian.
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| "Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild." | |
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Found in the topic Bad.
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| "Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that
it should become a universal law." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn
with many a philosophic wreck." | |
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Found in the topic Metaphysics.
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| "The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more
conscious we are of life." | |
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Found in the topic Action.
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| "To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are
many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive
of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around
them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is
their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind,
however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral
worth, but is on a level with other inclinations.... For the maxim lacks
the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from
inclination." | |
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Found in the topic Duty.
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| "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." | |
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Found in the topic Science.
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| "Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing
entirely straight can be carved." | |
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Found in the topic Sin.
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| "If [man] is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practise
kindness towards animals, for 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." | |
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Found in the topic Animals.
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| "Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination." | |
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Found in the topic Happiness.
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| "All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the
understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than
reason." | |
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Found in the topic Reason.
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| "We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do
without." | |
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Found in the topic Judge.
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| "The death of dogma is the birth of reality." | |
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Found in the topic Morality.
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| "The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she
is a human being, but because she is a woman. That she is a human being is
of no concern to him." | |
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Found in the topic Housework.
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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." | |
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Found in the topic Awe.
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| "Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the
child of time; ere long she shall appear to vindicate thee." | |
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Found in the topic Slander.
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| "The possession of power unavoidably spoils the free use of
reason." | |
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Found in the topic Power.
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