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Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant

Philosopher

(1724 - 1804)

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Immanuel Kant

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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.
Heavens - Mindset - Morals
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Immanuel Kant

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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.
Femininity - Fools - Joking - Man - Wellness
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Immanuel Kant

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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Immanuel Kant

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy
Happiness - Philosophy
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Immanuel Kant

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All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.
Vanity
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Immanuel Kant

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What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?
Philosophy
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Immanuel Kant

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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.
Animals - Creativity - Deal - Judging - Man - Pets
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Immanuel Kant

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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.
Entitlement - Follower
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Immanuel Kant

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As to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws: and besides, feelings which naturally differ infinitely in degree cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has any one a right to form judgments for others by his own feelings.
Belief - Help - Judging - Morals
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Immanuel Kant

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Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?
Whole
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Immanuel Kant

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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
Belief - Complain - Inspiration - Philosophy
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No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law ? i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.
End - Enjoying - Pursuit
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Immanuel Kant

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Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.
Creativity
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It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences.
Accounting - Kindness
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Immanuel Kant

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So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Actions - Making - Safety - Whole
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Immanuel Kant

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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
Inspiration
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A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who rode horseback for two hours. An amusing lecture is as useful for health as the exercise of the body.
Amusement - Man
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In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. Whatever has a price can be replaced by something else as its equivalent; on the other hand, whatever is above all price, and therefore admits of no equivalent, has a dignity. But that which constitutes the condition under which alone something can be an end in itself does not have mere relative worth, i.e., price, but an intrinsic worth, i.e., a dignity.
Conditioning - End - Relatives - Replacing
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Immanuel Kant

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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Blindness - Emptiness - Philosophy
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Immanuel Kant

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I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge.
Feelings
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Immanuel Kant

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In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.
Creativity - Earth - Man
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There is needed, no doubt, a body of servants (ministerium) of the invisible church, but not officials (officiales), in other words, teachers but not dignitaries, because in the rational religion of every individual there does not yet exist a church as a universal union (omnitudo collectiva).
Teaching
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Immanuel Kant

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Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
Mindset
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Immanuel Kant

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All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end.
Creativity - End - Evolution
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Immanuel Kant

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Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.
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Immanuel Kant

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Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion may differ, the will of all is therefore not that of all: which is contradictory and opposite to liberty.
Ability - Execution
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Immanuel Kant

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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
Earth - Evolution - Human - Whole
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Immanuel Kant

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Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.
Useful
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Immanuel Kant

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It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many a fog bank and ice, that soon melts away, tempt us to believe in new lands, while constantly deceiving the adventurous mariner with vain hopes, and involving him in adventures which he can never leave, yet never bring to an end.
Adventure - Belief - Enchantment - End - Storm - Vanity
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Immanuel Kant

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When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any
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Immanuel Kant

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Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.
Death - Suicide
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Immanuel Kant

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Agreeing
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