The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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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The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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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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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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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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Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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