From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
IMMANUEL KANTBetter the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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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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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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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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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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