It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
IMMANUEL KANTHuman beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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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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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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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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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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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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By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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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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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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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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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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