Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
IMMANUEL KANTBeauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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