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.
IMMANUEL KANTInnocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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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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The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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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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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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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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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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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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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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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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But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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