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Human reason is by nature architectonic.
Immanuel Kant
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Immanuel Kant
Age: 79 †
Born: 1724
Born: April 22
Died: 1804
Died: February 12
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An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.
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Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility
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Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.
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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.
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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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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.
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Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be compelled to do by another is to adopt a particular end. - 'Metaphysical Principles of Virtue
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Maturity is having the courage to use one's own intelligence!
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Do what is right, though the world may perish.
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Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.
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Have patience awhile slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the power of knowing an object through these representations (spontaneity [in the production] of concepts).
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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
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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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He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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