It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
IMMANUEL KANTBy a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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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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There 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.
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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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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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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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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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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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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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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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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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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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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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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