The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
IMMANUEL KANTInnocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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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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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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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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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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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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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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