Art is purposiveness without purpose.
IMMANUEL KANTSettle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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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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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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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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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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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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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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To be is to do.
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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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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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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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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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