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.
IMMANUEL KANTThe death of dogma is the birth of morality.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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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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Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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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 so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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