Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
IMMANUEL KANTFreedom is the opposite of necessity.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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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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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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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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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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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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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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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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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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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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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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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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