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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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In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence the theory of natural religion can be true only where there is no science therefore it cannot bind all men together.
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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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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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Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard.
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You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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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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Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.
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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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Do what is right, though the world may perish.
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All trades, arts, and handiworks have gained by division of labor... Where the different kinds of work are not distinguished and divided, where everyone is a jack-of-all-trades, there manufactures remain still in the greatest barbarism.
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Marriage...is the union of two people of different sexes with a view to the mutual possession of each other's sexual attributes for the duration of their lives.
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The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
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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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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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The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth
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