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 KANTHave patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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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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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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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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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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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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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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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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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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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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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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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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