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"Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled."
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"If I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking."

"Instead of a criminal or a drug addict, I was looking at a boy - just a boy."

"This woman might have a daughter, but she was as innocent and pure as newly fallen snow."

"Despite its dark veins, the transparency of dragonfly's wings assures me of a pure, innocent world."
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"As nature has uncovered from under this hard shell the seed for which she most tenderly cares - the propensity and vocation to free thinking - this gradually works back upon the character of the people, who thereby gradually become capable of managing freedom; finally, it affects the principles of government, which finds it to its advantage to treat men, who are now more than machines, in accordance with their dignity."

"We must admit thatlaw must be valid, not merely for men, but for all rational creatures generally, not merely under certain contingent conditions or with exceptions, but with absolute necessity."

"If I have a book that thinks for me, a pastor who acts as my conscience, a physician who prescribes my diet, and so on... then I have no need to exert myself. I have no need to think, if only I can pay; others will take care of that disagreeable business for me."

"Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt."

"Nature generally in the distribution of her capacities has adapted the means to the endso nature's true destination must be to produce a will, not merely good as a means to something else, but good in itself, for which reason wasimparted to us as a practicalabsolutely necessaryfaculty."

"Philosophical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from concepts mathematical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from the construction of concepts."

"The main point of enlightenment is man's release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion."

"If we were to suppose that mankind never can or will be in a better condition, it seems impossible to justify by any kind of theodicy the mere fact that such a race of corrupt beings could have been created on earth at all."
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