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Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was a German philosopher who is considered one of the central figures in modern philosophy. Kant's work in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics has had a profound influence on subsequent philosophy. Kant's most famous works include the "Critique of Pure Reason... show more

quote icon “Pure practical reason does not require that we should renounce all claim to happiness, but only that the moment duty is in question we should take no account of happiness”

- Immanuel Kant

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quote icon “Out of wood so crooked and perverse as that which man is made of, nothing absolutely straight can ever be wrought.”

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quote icon "Kant argued that it was not the consequences of actions that make them right or wrong but the motives of the person who carries out the action."

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quote icon “The majesty of duty has nothing to do with enjoyment of life; it has its special law and its special tribunal”

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quote icon "Man requires a master, therefore, to curb his will, and to compel him into submission to a universal will which may secure the possibility of universal freedom.“

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quote icon Man requires a master, therefore, to curb his will, and to compel him into submission to a universal will which may secure the possibility of universal freedom.

- Immanuel Kant

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quote icon Out of wood so crooked and perverse as that which man is made of, nothing absolutely straight can ever be wrought.

- Immanuel Kant

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quote icon Sapere Aude means dare to know and have courage to use your own reason. Rise above self-incurred tutelage with resolution. We are scared to walk alone on the path of knowledge because of initial failures can bring you down and hence like to pay for the ready-made knowledge.

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quote icon Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

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quote icon And age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding ones into such a condition that it cannot extend its knowledge, purify itself of errors and progress in general enlightenment.

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quote icon If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

- Immanuel Kant

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