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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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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When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.
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Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility
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Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.
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If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.
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Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.
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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.
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.
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Maximum individuality within maximum community
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Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.
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I learned to honor human beings, and I would find myself far more useless than the common laborer if I did not believe that this consideration could impart to all others a value establishing the rights of humanity.
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Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom.
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Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification.
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An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.
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