We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
IMMANUEL KANTFreedom is the opposite of necessity.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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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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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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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Without 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.
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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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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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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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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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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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By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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