From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
IMMANUEL KANTWe can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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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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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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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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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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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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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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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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