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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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What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?
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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Man desired concord but nature knows better what is good for his species she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content but nature compels him to leave ease... and throw himself into roils and labors.
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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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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct it acknowledges no limits to its projects. Reason itself does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order gradually to progress from one level of insight to another.
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All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end.
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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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Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
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If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.
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Reason can never prove the existence of God.
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Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom.
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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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Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard.
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The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.
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Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.
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It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.
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I am myself by inclination an investigator.
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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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