Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
IMMANUEL KANTHe who would know the world must first manufacture it.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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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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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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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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The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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