A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
IMMANUEL KANTIt 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.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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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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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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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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There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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