Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
IMMANUEL KANTTo be is to do.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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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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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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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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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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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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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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To be is to do.
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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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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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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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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 would know the world must first manufacture it.
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