Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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.
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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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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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To be is to do.
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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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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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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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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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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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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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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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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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