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Honesty is better than any policy.
Immanuel Kant
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Immanuel Kant
Age: 79 †
Born: 1724
Born: April 22
Died: 1804
Died: February 12
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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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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
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Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones they replace, will serve as a leash for the great unthinking mass.
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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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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end.
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You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am
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The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.
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It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless.
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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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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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THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.
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Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?
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Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.
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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner than however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to its present conditions. But they ought to give them an education so much better than this, that a better condition of things may thereby be brought about by the future.
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