If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
IMMANUEL KANTSpace and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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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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The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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To be is to do.
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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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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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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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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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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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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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But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Dare to think!
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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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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