Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
IMMANUEL KANTWar 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.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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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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Dare to think!
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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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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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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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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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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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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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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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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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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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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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You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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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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