The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
IMMANUEL KANTHuman beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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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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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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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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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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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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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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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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