Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
IMMANUEL KANTFreedom, is a property of all rational beings.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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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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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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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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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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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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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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To be is to do.
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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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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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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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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Two 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.
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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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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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