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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

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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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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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The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour, the more we love them, for we see how great is their care of the young.
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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 only thing that is good without qualification is a good will.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been made.
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Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.
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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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The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity.
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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy.
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Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.
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You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am
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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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Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.
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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 business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.
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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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