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Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.
Immanuel Kant
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Immanuel Kant
Age: 79 †
Born: 1724
Born: April 22
Died: 1804
Died: February 12
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Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.
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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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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.
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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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There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.
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I am myself by inclination an investigator.
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Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.
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Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
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Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.
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The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend — and we cannot comprehend God we can only believe in Him.
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