Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
IMMANUEL KANTHow things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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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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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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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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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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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.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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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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