We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
IMMANUEL KANTAn action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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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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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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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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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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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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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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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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