The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
IMMANUEL KANTMan must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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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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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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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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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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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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If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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To be is to do.
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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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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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