From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
IMMANUEL KANTSettle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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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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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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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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The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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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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You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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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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