"Wenn, in einer philosophischen Frage, das einstimmige Urteil der Weltweisen ein Wall wäre, über welchen zu schreiten es vor ein gleichsträfliches Verbrechen mit demjenigen, welches Remus beging, müßte gehalten werden, so würde ich mich den Vorwitz wohl vergehen lassen, meinen Einfällen wider das entscheidende Gutachten des ehrwürdigen großen Haufens diejenige Freiheit zu erlauben, die durch nichts weiter als durch die gesunde Vernunft gerechtfertiget ist."
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Immanuel Kant
1724 – 1804
deutscher Philosoph
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