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.
IMMANUEL KANTThe greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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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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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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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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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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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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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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