The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
IMMANUEL KANTArt is purposiveness without purpose.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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It 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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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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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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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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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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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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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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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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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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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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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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