Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
IMMANUEL KANTNature 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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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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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 busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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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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Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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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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There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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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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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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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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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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