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Immanuel Kant
Age: 79 †
Born: 1724
Born: April 22
Died: 1804
Died: February 12
Anthropologist
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Pedagogue
Philosopher
Physicist
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Königsberg i. Pr.
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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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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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There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Do what is right, though the world may perish.
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Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument.
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Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification.
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Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.
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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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I am myself by inclination an investigator.
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I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy.
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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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Reason can never prove the existence of God.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.
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The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable of the greatest happiness.
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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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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
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