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• Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

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• In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.

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• I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.

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• I ought never to act except in such away that I can also will that my maxim should become a universal law.

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• Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.

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• Sapere aude, have the courage to know: that is the motto of enlightenment.

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• It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

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• I have no knowledge of myself as I am but merely as I appear to myself.  The consciousness of myself is thus very far from being a knowledge of the self.

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• The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.

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• Art is purposiveness without purpose.

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• What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.

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• Give me matter and i will build a world out of it.

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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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• Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

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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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• Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.

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• There is ….but one categorical imperative, namely, this: Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

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• Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness.

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• Rules for Happiness:
  something to do,
  someone to love,
  something to hope for.

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• To be is to do.

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Immanuel Kant (55)

Birth:	22nd April, 1724
Death:	12th February, 1804
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Philosopher

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Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher who is widely considered to be a central figure of modern philosophy. He argued that fundamental concepts structure human experience, and that reason is the source of morality. His thought continues to have a major influence in contemporary thought, especially the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, and aesthetics.

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