War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
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.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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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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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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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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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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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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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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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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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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