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 KANTSettle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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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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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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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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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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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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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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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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