Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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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Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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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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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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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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Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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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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