Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
IMMANUEL KANTThe possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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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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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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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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But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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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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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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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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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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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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