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Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent.
It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.
With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.
The only thing that is good without qualification is a good will.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.
Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man.
Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected.
It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.
The human heart refuses To believe in a universe Without a purpose.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.
Notion without intuition is empty, intuition without notion is blind.
Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.
I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself.
Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.
I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained.
Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings
Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not everything
The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience.
Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.
Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.
Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.
A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.
All appearances are real and negatio; sophistical: All reality must be sensation.
Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.
Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
In the mere concept of one thing it cannot be found any character of its existence.
Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.