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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
Immanuel Kant
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Immanuel Kant
Age: 79 †
Born: 1724
Born: April 22
Died: 1804
Died: February 12
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We ourselves introduce that order and regularity in the appearance which we entitle nature. We could never find them in appearances had we not ourselves, by the nature of our own mind, originally set them there.
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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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Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.
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Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it God prohibits it because it is abominable.
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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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Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.
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Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.
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Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable, which is infinitely worse than non-existence?
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The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.
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The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Do what is right, though the world may perish.
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Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.
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Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
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Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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