The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
IMMANUEL KANTWe are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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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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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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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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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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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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By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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To be is to do.
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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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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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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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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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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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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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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
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