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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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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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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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Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.
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We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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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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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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Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
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Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.
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I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge.
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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.
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I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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In the mere concept of one thing it cannot be found any character of its existence.
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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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Act in such a way that you will be worthy of being happy.
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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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[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.
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Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.
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There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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