It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
IMMANUEL KANTFrom such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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To be is to do.
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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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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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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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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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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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Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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