Kant's Inaugural Dissertation (1770), Section I On The Idea Of A World In General
“In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.”
Source: The World According to Garp, ch. 19
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Context: I have no Protestant prejudices against Catholicism, and have no Catholic prejudices against Protestantism. I regard all religions either without prejudice or with the same prejudice. They were all, according to my belief, devised by men, and all have for a foundation ignorance of this world and fear of the next. All the Gods have been made by men. They are all equally powerful and equally useless.
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Source: A Bend in the River