"The function of the true state is to……" — Immanuel Kant
"The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing."
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229 Quotes by Immanuel Kant
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I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within…
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Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.
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The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has…
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Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent.
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Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.
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...as soon as we examine suicide from the standpoint of religion we immediately see it in its true light. We…
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
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What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.
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Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a…
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Honesty is better than any policy.
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Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live…
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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by…
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I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God!…
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Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.
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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or…
— Michael Behe
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To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter,…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of…
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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
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Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic…
— Andrea Bocelli
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This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed…
— David Bohm
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A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any…
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