But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
IMMANUEL KANTI had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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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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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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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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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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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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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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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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