All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
IMMANUEL KANTAct only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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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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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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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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Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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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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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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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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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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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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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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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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