“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not...”
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Immanuel Kant was an 18th-century German philosopher from the Prussian city of Königsberg. Kant was the last influential philosopher of modern Europe in the classic sequence of the theory of knowledge during the Enlightenment beginning with thinkers John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume. Kant created a new perspective in philosophy which had widespread influences on philosophy continuing through to the 21st century. He published important works on epistemology, as well as works relevant to religion, law, and history. One of his most prominent works is the *Critique of Pure Reason*, an investigation into the limitations and structure of reason itself. It encompasses an attack on traditional metaphysics and epistemology, and highlights Kant's own contribution to these areas. The other main works of his maturity are the *Critique of Practical Reason*, which concentrates on ethics, and the *Critique of Judgment*, which investigates aesthetics and teleology. <sup>[1][1]</sup> [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant
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“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not...”
“In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.”
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“Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.”
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“Since in early youth it cannot be known what ends are likely to occur to us in the course of life, parents seek to have their children taught a great many things, and provide for their skill...”
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“If I have a book that thinks for me, a pastor who acts as my conscience, a physician who prescribes my diet, and so on... then I have no need to exert myself. I have no need to think, if onl...”
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“Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.”
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“The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one nece...”
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“Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.”
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“Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.”
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“So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.”
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“A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.”
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“May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.”
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“Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.”
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“But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.”
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“It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.”
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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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“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.”
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“It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.”
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“I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.”
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“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.”
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