What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
IMMANUEL KANTBut although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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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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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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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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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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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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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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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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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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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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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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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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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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