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A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.
Immanuel Kant
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Immanuel Kant
Age: 79 †
Born: 1724
Born: April 22
Died: 1804
Died: February 12
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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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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
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Reason can never prove the existence of God.
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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Seek not the favor of the multitude it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few and number not voices, but weigh them.
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Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.
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All appearances are real and negatio sophistical: All reality must be sensation.
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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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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It is because of laziness and cowardice that it is so easy for others to usurp the role of guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor!
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There is something splendid about innocence but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.
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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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