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What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?
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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Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.
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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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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Things which we see are not by themselves what we see ... It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may be by themselves and apart from the receptivity of our senses. We know nothing but our manner of perceiving them.
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Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.
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Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as I am of the way in which the human spirit enters the world and the way in which he goes out of it, I dare not deny the truth of many such narratives.
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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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Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility
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Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not been of much value to the human understanding. It is a dialectic and an organon for the art of disputation.
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There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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There is something splendid about innocence but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.
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There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise.
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Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.
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Always regard every man as an end in himself, and never use him merely as a means to your ends [i.e., respect that each person has a life and purpose that is their own do not treat people as objects to be exploited].
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Immanuel Kant
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.
Immanuel Kant
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy
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