By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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 enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Dare to think!
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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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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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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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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 cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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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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If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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