Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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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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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To be is to do.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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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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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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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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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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