Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
IMMANUEL KANTLaughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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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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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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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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War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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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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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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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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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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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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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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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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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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