It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
IMMANUEL KANTPrudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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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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If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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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 cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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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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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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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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