If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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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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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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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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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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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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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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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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