One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
IMMANUEL KANTWe are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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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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The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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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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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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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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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 only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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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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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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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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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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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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