The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
IMMANUEL KANTFreedom is the opposite of necessity.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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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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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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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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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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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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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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The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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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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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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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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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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