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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel Kant
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Immanuel Kant
Age: 79 †
Born: 1724
Born: April 22
Died: 1804
Died: February 12
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Königsberg i. Pr.
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Honesty is better than any policy.
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Do the right thing because it is right.
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Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.
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We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life.
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Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument.
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The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation. But it is one of the worthiest inquiries to see how far our reason can go in the knowledge of God.
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