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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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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An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.
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The sceptics, a kind of nomads, despising all settled culture of the land, broke up from time to time all civil society. Fortunately their number was small, and they could not prevent the old settlers from returning to cultivate the ground afresh, though without any fixed plan or agreement.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly.
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Do what is right, though the world may perish.
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Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be compelled to do by another is to adopt a particular end. - 'Metaphysical Principles of Virtue
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The only thing permanent is change.
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God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.
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Human reason is by nature architectonic.
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Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.
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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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I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.
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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 nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.
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The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.
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Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it God prohibits it because it is abominable.
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Reason can never prove the existence of God.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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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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The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it what a flower or an insect does in comparison with the Earth.
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