Happy birthday to Immanuel Kant!

A special "Kant in Bricks" thread to celebrate! 🎉
"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
- Immanuel Kant
"Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law."
- Immanuel Kant
"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."
- Immanuel Kant
"Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means but always at the same time as an end."
- Immanuel Kant
"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."
- Immanuel Kant
"Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."
- Immanuel Kant
"Dare to know."
- Immanuel Kant
"Have the courage to use your own reason. That is the motto of enlightenment.”
- Immanuel Kant

"Think, think, think, think, think!"
- Aretha Franklin
Bonus: behind the scenes at an Immanuel Kant photoshoot.

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