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Cruelty To Animals Is Contrary To Man's Duty To Himself, Because It Deadens In Him The Feeling Of Sympathy For Their Sufferings, And Thus A Natural Tendency That Is Very Useful To Morality In Relation To Other Human Beings Is Weakened.

-Immanuel Kant

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Immanuel Kant

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Cruelty To Animals Is Contrary To Man's Duty To Himself, Because It Deadens In Him The Feeling Of Sympathy For Their Sufferings, And Thus A Natural Tendency That Is Very Useful To Morality In Relation To Other Human Beings Is Weakened.

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Great Minds Think For Themselves.

Heaven Has Given Human Beings Three Things To Balance The Odds Of Life: Hope, Sleep, And Laughter.

Man Must Be Disciplined, For He Is By Nature Raw And Wild.

Do What Is Right, Though The World May Perish.

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If A Man Is Often The Subject Of Conversation He Soon Becomes The Subject Of Criticism.

Time Is Not An Empirical Concept. For Neither Co-existence Nor Succession Would Be Perceived By Us, If The Representation Of Time Did Not Exist As A Foundation A Priori.

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Among All Nations, Through The Darkest Polytheism Glimmer Some Faint Sparks Of Monotheism.

Ours Is An Age Of Criticism, To Which Everything Must Be Subjected.

All Human Knowledge Begins With Intuitions, Proceeds From Thence To Concepts, And Ends With Ideas.

When I Could Have Used A Wife, I Could Not Support One; And When I Could Support One, I No Longer Needed Any

The Enjoyment Of Power Inevitably Corrupts The Judgment Of Reason, And Perverts Its Liberty.

Man's Greatest Concern Is To Know How He Shall Properly Fill His Place In The Universe And Correctly Understand What He Must Be In Order To Be A Man.

What Can I Know? What Ought I To Do? What May I Hope?

Art Is Purposiveness Without Purpose.

We Can Never, Even By The Strictest Examination, Get Completely Behind The Secret Springs Of Action.

Riches Ennoble A Man's Circumstances, But Not Himself.

Human Beings Are Never To Be Treated As A Means But Always As Ends.

Act In Such A Way That You Will Be Worthy Of Being Happy.

Our Knowledge Springs From Two Fundamental Sources Of The Mind; The First Is The Capacity Of Receiving Representations (receptivity For Impressions), The Second Is The Power Of Knowing An Object Through These Representations (spontaneity [in The Production] Of Concepts).

Suicide Is Not Abominable Because God Prohibits It; God Prohibits It Because It Is Abominable.

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.

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