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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.”

Quote by Immanuel Kant

Book:Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals

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Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals

This book delves into the ethical theories proposed by Immanuel Kant, focusing on the metaphysical underpinnings of moral conduct and the concept of duty. more

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German philosopher, an important representative of the Enlightenment movement, and the founder of the Kantian philosophical system. His thoughts have had a profound impact on the fields of philosophy, ethics, political science, and others. more

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Book:Lectures on Logic

Source: Lectures on Logic

“Since the narrower or wider community of the peoples of the earth has developed so far that a violation of rights in one place is felt throughout the world, the idea of a cosmopolitan right is not fantastical, high-flown or exaggerated notion. It is a complement to the unwritten code of the civil and international law, necessary for the public rights of mankind in general and thus for the realization of perpetual peace.”

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“I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy.”

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Book:Theoretical Philosophy after 1781

Source: Theoretical Philosophy after 1781

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Book:Philosophical writings

Source: Philosophical writings

“Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he should partake of no other happiness or perfection than that which he himself, independently of instinct, has created by his own reason.”

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Book:Philosophical writings

Source: Philosophical writings

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Book:Philosophical writings

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“A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the human race must be regarded as possible and, indeed, as contributing to this end of Nature.”

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Book:Philosophical writings

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“Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.”

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Author:Immanuel Kant

“All our knowledge falls with the bounds of experience.”

Author:Immanuel Kant