From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
IMMANUEL KANTIt is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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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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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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To be is to do.
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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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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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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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