The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
IMMANUEL KANTThe great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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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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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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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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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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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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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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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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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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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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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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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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