I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
Ich musste also das Wissen aufheben, um zum Glauben Platz zu bekommen.
Philosophers
Immanuel Kant
Born in Konigsberg in 1724, Kant never left home yet redrew Western philosophy. His Critique of Pure Reason reconciled rationalism and empiricism. His categorical imperative remains a bedrock of ethics.
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Immanuel Kant's Other Quotes
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Have the courage to use your own understanding!
Treat humanity, in your own person or in another, always as an end and never merely as a means.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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