Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
IMMANUEL KANTIt is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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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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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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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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War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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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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Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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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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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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