Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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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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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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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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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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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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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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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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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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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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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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