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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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Immanuel Kant
Age: 79 †
Born: 1724
Born: April 22
Died: 1804
Died: February 12
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In the mere concept of one thing it cannot be found any character of its existence.
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Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.
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Men will not understand ... that when they fulfil their duties to men, they fulfil thereby God's commandments that they are consequently always in the service of God, as long as their actions are moral, and that it is absolutely impossible to serve God otherwise.
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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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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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Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.
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Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.
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If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning.
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Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it God prohibits it because it is abominable.
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But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.
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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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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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Marriage...is the union of two people of different sexes with a view to the mutual possession of each other's sexual attributes for the duration of their lives.
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God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.
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Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.
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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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Innocence is indeed a glorious thing but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray.
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