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Immanuel Kant
Age: 79 †
Born: 1724
Born: April 22
Died: 1804
Died: February 12
Anthropologist
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Philosopher
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Königsberg i. Pr.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.
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Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
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Do the right thing because it is right.
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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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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
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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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Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.
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Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.
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The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend — and we cannot comprehend God we can only believe in Him.
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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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Always regard every man as an end in himself, and never use him merely as a means to your ends [i.e., respect that each person has a life and purpose that is their own do not treat people as objects to be exploited].
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The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.
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Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes
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[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.
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Maturity is having the courage to use one's own intelligence!
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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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Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be compelled to do by another is to adopt a particular end. - 'Metaphysical Principles of Virtue
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Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.
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