Quote by Immanuel Kant
Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits

Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable. – Immanuel Kant

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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics. – Immanuel Kant

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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. – Immanuel Kant

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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. – Immanuel Kant

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Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadnt had an audience, and lines to speak? – Jean Genet

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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. – Cyril Connolly

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The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps. – Havelock Ellis

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