Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
IMMANUEL KANTIf God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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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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To be is to do.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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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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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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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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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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Dare to think!
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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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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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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