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He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray
Immanuel Kant
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Immanuel Kant
Age: 79 †
Born: 1724
Born: April 22
Died: 1804
Died: February 12
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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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A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.
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Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy
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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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Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument.
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