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Kant

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influential German idealist philosopher (1724-1804)

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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else. Robert Louis Stevenson

Virtues are dispositions not only to act in particular ways, but also to feel in particular ways. To act virtuously is not, as Kant was later to think, to act against inclination; it is to act from inclination formed by the cultivation of the virtues. Alasdair MacIntyre

Kant ... discovered "the scandal of reason,” that is the fact that our mind is not capable of certain and verifiable knowledge regarding matters and questions that it nevertheless cannot help thinking about. Hannah Arendt

Kant [...] stated that he had "found it necessary to deny knowledge [...] to make room for faith,” but all he had "denied” was knowledge of things that are unknowable, and he had not made room for faith but for thought. Hannah Arendt

One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche's work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values. Gilles Deleuze

Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an entire German race of philosophical systems. Stefan Zweig

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