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You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am

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Immanuel Kant
Age: 79 †
Born: 1724
Born: April 22
Died: 1804
Died: February 12
Anthropologist
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Königsberg i. Pr.
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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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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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Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.
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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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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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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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There is something splendid about innocence but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.
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Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.
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I learned to honor human beings, and I would find myself far more useless than the common laborer if I did not believe that this consideration could impart to all others a value establishing the rights of humanity.
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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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Maximum individuality within maximum community
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The only thing permanent is change.
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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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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 ourselves introduce that order and regularity in the appearance which we entitle nature. We could never find them in appearances had we not ourselves, by the nature of our own mind, originally set them there.
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The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.
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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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Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
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