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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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Do the right thing because it is right.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument.
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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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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
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It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many a fog bank and ice, that soon melts away, tempt us to believe in new lands, while constantly deceiving the adventurous mariner with vain hopes, and involving him in adventures which he can never leave, yet never bring to an end.
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Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.
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The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.
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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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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.
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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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Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.
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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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THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.
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We ourselves introduce that order and regularity in the appearance which we entitle nature. We could never find them in appearances had we not ourselves, by the nature of our own mind, originally set them there.
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Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.
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Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it God prohibits it because it is abominable.
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