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Staatsphilosoph, 1749 erschien sein erstes Werk "Gedanken von der wahren Schätzung der lebendigen Kräfte", Professor für Logik und Metaphysik seit 1770, 14. 5. 1781: Kant präsentiert sein Hauptwerk "Kritik der reinen Vernunft" (Deutschland, 1724 - 1804).

Immanuel Kant · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Immanuel Kant wäre heute 301 Jahre, 0 Monate, 17 Tage oder 109.955 Tage alt.

Geboren am 22.04.1724 in Königsberg
Gestorben am 12.02.1804 in Königsberg
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• It is far more convenient to commit an act of violence and afterwards excuse it, than laboriously to consider convincing arguments, and lose time listening to objectons. This very boldness itself indicates a sort of convinction of the legitimacy of the action, and the God of success is afterwards the best advocate.

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• It is sometimes not without profit to place a certain confidence in ones own abilities.

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• Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.

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• Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

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• Mankind could perhaps become richer by growing poorer and win by losing.

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• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

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• Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

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• Nothing in the world-indeed nothing even beyond the world-can possibly be conceived which could be called good without qualification except a good will.

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

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• Peace is reason's masterpiece.

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• Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.

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• So act as to treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only.

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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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• The aimless person suffers his fate. The man with an aim shapes his.

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• The busier we are, the more actualy we feel that we live.

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• The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

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• Thinking is conversation with oneself.

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• Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.

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• Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more seriously reflection concentrates upon them: the starry heaven above me and the moral law within me.

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• Whoever wills the end, wills also (so far as reason decides his conduct) the means in his power which are indispensably necessary thereto.

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