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.
IMMANUEL KANTFreedom is the opposite of necessity.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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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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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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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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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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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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