He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
IMMANUEL KANTHe who would know the world must first manufacture it.
IMMANUEL KANTAn action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
IMMANUEL KANTHave patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
IMMANUEL KANTIn all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
IMMANUEL KANTGive me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
IMMANUEL KANTThe hand is the visible part of the brain.
IMMANUEL KANTThe death of dogma is the birth of morality.
IMMANUEL KANTAct only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
IMMANUEL KANTThere 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.
IMMANUEL KANTA 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 KANTHuman beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
IMMANUEL KANTIf the truth shall kill them, let them die.
IMMANUEL KANTWar 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.
IMMANUEL KANTInnocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
IMMANUEL KANTWithout 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.
IMMANUEL KANTIt is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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