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The best works of human art are created according to the same laws as the works of cosmic forces, i.e. Nature. Philosophy, as a special type of intellectual activity, is accessible to a few, and art is open to any consciousness. Therefore, it is through art that all humanity can achieve the highest truth.

Man turns out to be the highest goal of the development of Nature, for it is through human consciousness that she knows herself.

Every person is endowed with freedom, but living among others, he must limit his freedom, recognizing the freedom of others; thus law is born.

To be free means to make yourself free. Freedom is the activity of recognizing necessity.

For any student of consciousness, the first and most obvious object of study is his personal, individual, experiential self. But besides my consciousness, there are also consciousnesses (selves) of other people. So my self is included in the many human selves.

As experience shows us, there is no direct connection between moral and immoral behavior and, accordingly, happiness or unhappiness in this life. On the contrary, we often see how completely vicious, unprincipled and immoral individuals achieve great success. Whereas people who follow moral duty often suffer because of their decency, live in poverty, and do not receive recognition. This situation is contrary to our moral conscience, which requires fair compliance. But since this correspondence does not exist in the world of phenomena, it remains to be assumed that it takes place in the intelligible world.

Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, both in your own person and in the person of everyone else, as an end, and never treat it only as a means.

Every person, every personality is an end in itself, therefore a person cannot be a means in solving any problems, even tasks to achieve the common good.

A thing in itself is an object of the external world (or the whole world as a whole) as it exists in itself. A thing for us is an image (phenomenon) of an object in the external world (or the entire world as a whole), existing in our consciousness. We always deal only with the thing for us.

God is perfect, therefore the world created by him combines the greatest diversity with the best order. Therefore, our world is the best of all possible worlds. The existence of evil in the world is the result of the imperfection of people, the result of man's failure to fulfill the goals for which he was created.

The very process of creating the world is necessary for God to comprehend his own essence - he creates angels and man as an organ of his self-knowledge. The eyes of this Abyss are our eyes, and it is a mirror of itself.

Man discovers in nature two qualities: one good, the other evil, which in this world in all forces, in the stars and elements, equally in all creatures, are inseparable from one another, as something united. Such qualities are heat and cold, air and water, bitter and sweet, etc. Opposite qualities constantly fight with each other, existing in unity.

A righteous person with God in his soul does not care about anything earthly, does not become attached to anything, he is not interested in property, career, etc. He perceives everything that happens around him and with himself in an infinite sense.

There must be poverty