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Act in such a way that you will be worthy of being happy.
Immanuel Kant
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Immanuel Kant
Age: 79 †
Born: 1724
Born: April 22
Died: 1804
Died: February 12
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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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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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Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them fools ridicule them but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.
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Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.
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I am myself by inclination an investigator.
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The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.
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Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly.
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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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Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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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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I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning.
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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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Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.
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The only thing that is good without qualification is a good will.
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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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Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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