What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
IMMANUEL KANTLaughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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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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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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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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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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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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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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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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By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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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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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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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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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 human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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