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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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"In the true man there is a child concealed - who wants to play."
"You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility."
"The happiest adults are those who never buried old toys or abandoned imaginary friends."
"If I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking."
"Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from."
"Maybe it's okay to be a kid once in a while."
"As children play games with imaginary things, initially a seeker indulges in little things. So simple people believe in simple things."
"I'd prefer you accuse my son, so he can defend his innocence rather than prolong unnecessary guilt.' (Spoken by Bracke, told by Eric)"
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"Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge."
"A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose."
"The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason."
"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."
"The main point of enlightenment is man's release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion."
"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."
"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."
"Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing."
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