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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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Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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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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Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.
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Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic)
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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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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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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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.
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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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In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence the theory of natural religion can be true only where there is no science therefore it cannot bind all men together.
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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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Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes
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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.
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Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.
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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
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