We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
IMMANUEL KANTSettle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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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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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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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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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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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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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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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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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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To be is to do.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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