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“Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.”
Immanuel Kant
“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.”
“By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man”
“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
“Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness”
“No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law – i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.”
“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.”
“Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.”
“Do what is right, though the world may perish”
“The death of dogma is the birth of morality”