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Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.

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There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise.

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If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.

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Great minds think for themselves.

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Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.

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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.

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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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But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained, as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts of useful utensils, and so on, any regularity that has an air of constraint is [to be] avoided as much as possible. That is why the English taste in gardens, or the baroque taste in furniture, carries the imagination's freedom very far, even to the verge of the grotesque, because it is precisely this divorce from any constraint of a rule that the case is posited where taste can show its greatest perfection in designs made by the imagination.

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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

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Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.

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At some future day it will be proved, I cannot say when and where, that the human soul is, while in earth life, already in an uninterrupted communication with those living in another world.

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Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray.

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Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience.

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It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.

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Human reason is by nature architectonic.

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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

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Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.

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Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.

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A science of all these possible kinds of space [the higher dimensional ones] would undoubtedly be the highest enterprise which a finite understanding could undertake in the field of geometry... If it is possible that there could be regions with other dimensions, it is very likely that God has somewhere brought them into being.

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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!

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