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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."
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"God didn't tell us to suspend our minds he rather challenged us to come and reason, to use our reasoning faculties."
"Education falls short of divine truth that will empower our spiritual lives."
"Thoughts of some special people are like the stairs, they take you up to the upstairs floors; some are like the wings, they take you up to the skies and some are like the light itself, they take you right to the stars and the beyond! And such are the thoughts of Buddha!"
"It is time for us to open our eyes. It is time for us to awaken to new possibilities and make them real. It is time for us to awaken our dormant spirituality-first as individuals, then as whole nations, and finally as the whole of humanity-and raise up our collective consciousness.-Healing Society: A Prescription for Global Enlightenment."
"The ambitious strive to be well known, the enlightened strive to be worth knowing."
"What is the sign of the person residing in his own Self as Pure Soul? Vitaragta [a state of freedom from all worldly attachments]!"
"The one who can see all the viewpoints of the world is a savior (tarantaranhaar " one who has attained liberation and graces others with the same)."
"We have to confront ignorance in our nation."
"We have come to love darkness of religion more than seeking for the knowledge of God."
"In order to reach his destiny and have dominion over the earth, man has to get wisdom."
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"In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion."
"Anarchy is law and freedom without force.Despotism is law and force without freedom.Barbarism force without freedom and law.Republicanism is force with freedom and law."
"To be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly safer."
"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."
"An action done from duty has its moral worth, not in the purpose to be attained by it, but in the maxim according with which it is decided upon; it depends therefore, not on the realization of the object of action, but solely on the principle of volition in accordance with which, irrespective of all objects of the faculty of desire, the action has been performed."
"Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play."
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