Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
IMMANUEL KANTThere 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.
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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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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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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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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