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.
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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The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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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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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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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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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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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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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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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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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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