Abbot Terrasson tells us that if the size of a book were me… - Immanuel Kant

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Abbot Terrasson tells us that if the size of a book were measured not by the number of its pages but by the time required to understand it, then we could say about many books that they would be much shorter were they not so short.

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

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There is … only a single categorical imperative and it is this: Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

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Inexperienced in the course of world affairs and incapable of being prepared for all the chances that happen in it, I ask myself only 'Can you also will that your maxim should become a universal law?' Where you cannot it is to be rejected...

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