You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
IMMANUEL KANTArt is purposiveness without purpose.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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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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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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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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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Without 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.
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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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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.
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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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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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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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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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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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