All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
IMMANUEL KANTThe busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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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 greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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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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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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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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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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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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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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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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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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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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