The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
IMMANUEL KANTYou must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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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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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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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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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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