Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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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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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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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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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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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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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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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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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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