Immanuel Kant

Germany
22 Apr 1724 // 12 Feb 1804
Philosopher

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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end
All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason
Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world
The possession of power unavoidably spoils the free use of reason
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