We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
IMMANUEL KANTRules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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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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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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You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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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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By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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