Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
IMMANUEL KANTDare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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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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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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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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