The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
IMMANUEL KANTBut only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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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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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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To be is to do.
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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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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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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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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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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Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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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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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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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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