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Immanuel Kant
Age: 79 †
Born: 1724
Born: April 22
Died: 1804
Died: February 12
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Königsberg i. Pr.
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Maximum individuality within maximum community
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I am myself by inclination an investigator.
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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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All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
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No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been made.
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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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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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Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.
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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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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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We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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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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The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation. But it is one of the worthiest inquiries to see how far our reason can go in the knowledge of God.
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Maturity is having the courage to use one's own intelligence!
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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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Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.
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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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Act in such a way that you will be worthy of being happy.
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The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.
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