Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
IMMANUEL KANTGive me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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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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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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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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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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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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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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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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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By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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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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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Dare to think!
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Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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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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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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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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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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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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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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