Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
IMMANUEL KANTFrom such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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Dare to think!
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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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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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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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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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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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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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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The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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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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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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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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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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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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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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