The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
IMMANUEL KANTBeauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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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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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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To be is to do.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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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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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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If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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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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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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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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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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