Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
IMMANUEL KANTGive me matter and I will build a world out of it.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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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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The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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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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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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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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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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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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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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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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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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Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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