The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
IMMANUEL KANTThe great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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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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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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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 main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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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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Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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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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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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