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.
IMMANUEL KANTWithout 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.
IMMANUEL KANTNothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
IMMANUEL KANTThe outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
IMMANUEL KANTYou must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
IMMANUEL KANTThings which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
IMMANUEL KANTBeauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
IMMANUEL KANTHeaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
IMMANUEL KANTWe are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
IMMANUEL KANTThe enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
IMMANUEL KANTSpace and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
IMMANUEL KANTThe busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
IMMANUEL KANTDignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
IMMANUEL KANTIt is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
IMMANUEL KANTThe main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
IMMANUEL KANTAll human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
IMMANUEL KANTOut of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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