"a revolution may bring about the end of a personal despotism or of avaricious and tyrannical oppressions, but never a true reform of modes of thought" - kant, what is enlightenment?
"with regard to illnesses, I will not repeat the vain and false pronouncements made against medicine by the majority of people in good health" - rousseau, discourse on the origin of inequality
"the human race would long ago have ceased to exist, if its preservation had depended solely on the reasonings of its members" - rousseau, discourse on the origin of inequality
"pure sincerity in friendship can be no less required even if up to now there may never have been a sincere friend" - kant, groundwork on the metaphysics of morals
"[passions] get their power from the fact that they observe none of the limits which the law and morality would seek to impose on them-and from the fact that these forces of nature are closer and more immediate to human beings than the artificial and tedious discipline toward order and moderation, toward law and morality" - hegel, introduction to the philosophy of history
and that is all the corelove you'll get out of me tonight.
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