Art is purposiveness without purpose.
IMMANUEL KANTI had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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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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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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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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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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Dare to think!
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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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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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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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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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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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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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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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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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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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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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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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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