The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
IMMANUEL KANTFreedom is the opposite of necessity.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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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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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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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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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.
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