Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
IMMANUEL KANTMorality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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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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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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The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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To be is to do.
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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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A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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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 is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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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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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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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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Dare to think!
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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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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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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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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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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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