Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
IMMANUEL KANTIf God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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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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Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
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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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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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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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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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