All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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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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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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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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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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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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It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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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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