Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
IMMANUEL KANTThe outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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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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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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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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Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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