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.
IMMANUEL KANTFrom such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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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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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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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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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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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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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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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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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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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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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.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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