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I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge.
Immanuel Kant
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Immanuel Kant
Age: 79 †
Born: 1724
Born: April 22
Died: 1804
Died: February 12
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All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
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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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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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Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings
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All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end.
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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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cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.
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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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He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray
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A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who rode horseback for two hours. An amusing lecture is as useful for health as the exercise of the body.
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Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.
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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.
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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.
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I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
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Prudence reproaches conscience accuses.
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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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The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable of the greatest happiness.
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