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.
IMMANUEL KANTAct only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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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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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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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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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
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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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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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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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