From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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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 great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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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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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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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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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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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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