Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
IMMANUEL KANTGenius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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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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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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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 enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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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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