Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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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But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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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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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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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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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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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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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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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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