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.
IMMANUEL KANTTwo 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.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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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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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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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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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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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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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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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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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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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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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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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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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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