The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
IMMANUEL KANTWe are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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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.
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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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To be is to do.
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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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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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It 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.
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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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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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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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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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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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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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