Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
IMMANUEL KANTLook closely. The beautiful may be small.
IMMANUEL KANTIt is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
IMMANUEL KANTAll human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
IMMANUEL KANTSince 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.
IMMANUEL KANTHeaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
IMMANUEL KANTWhat can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
IMMANUEL KANTHave patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
IMMANUEL KANTBy a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
IMMANUEL KANTBut although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
IMMANUEL KANTBy a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
IMMANUEL KANTHave the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
IMMANUEL KANTSettle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
IMMANUEL KANTOnly the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
IMMANUEL KANTGenius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
IMMANUEL KANTBut only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
IMMANUEL KANTThe main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
IMMANUEL KANT