Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a propo… - Immanuel Kant

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Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a proportion of men, long after nature has released them from alien guidance, nonetheless gladly remain in lifelong immaturity, and why it is so easy for others to establish themselves as their guardians...

Immanuel Kant

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Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804), born Emanuel Kant, was a German philosopher.

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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!

In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.

There can be only one reason why we must do what duty demands, and that is that we demand it of ourselves.

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