Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
IMMANUEL KANTArt is purposiveness without purpose.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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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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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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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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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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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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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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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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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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