... happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination… - Immanuel Kant

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... happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination, resting on merely empirical grounds,

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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