Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
IMMANUEL KANTThings which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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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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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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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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