We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
IMMANUEL KANTArt is purposiveness without purpose.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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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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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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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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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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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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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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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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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.
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