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Do the right thing because it is right.

Immanuel Kant

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Immanuel Kant
Age: 79 †
Born: 1724
Born: April 22
Died: 1804
Died: February 12
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I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
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Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.
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Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom.
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Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.
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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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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
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