Art is purposiveness without purpose.
IMMANUEL KANTIf justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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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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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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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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Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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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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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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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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You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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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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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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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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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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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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