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The only thing permanent is change.

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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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Innocence is indeed a glorious thing but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.
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cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.
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Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones they replace, will serve as a leash for the great unthinking mass.
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Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.
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Maturity is having the courage to use one's own intelligence!
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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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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.
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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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The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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It is often necessary to make a decision on the basis of knowledge sufficient for action but insufficient to satisfy the intellect.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am
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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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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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If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.
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