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.
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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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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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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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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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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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 death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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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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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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It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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To be is to do.
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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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