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We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.
Immanuel Kant
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Immanuel Kant
Age: 79 †
Born: 1724
Born: April 22
Died: 1804
Died: February 12
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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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[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.
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Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world as if it originated from an all-sufficient necessary cause.
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Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.
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For how is it possible, says that acute man, that when a concept is given me, I can go beyond it and connect with it another which is not contained in it, in such a manner as if that latter necessarily belonged to the former?
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The only thing that is good without qualification is a good will.
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Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.
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Innocence is indeed a glorious thing but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray.
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All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
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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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Men will not understand ... that when they fulfil their duties to men, they fulfil thereby God's commandments that they are consequently always in the service of God, as long as their actions are moral, and that it is absolutely impossible to serve God otherwise.
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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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