It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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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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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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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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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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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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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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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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