What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
IMMANUEL KANTLook closely. The beautiful may be small.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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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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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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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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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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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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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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By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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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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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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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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