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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced.
Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument.
Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification.
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.
Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal.
A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.
If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease
An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.
One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.
Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.
All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end.
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.
Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.
Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.
Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.
All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?
Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.
The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.