How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
IMMANUEL KANTMan must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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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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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
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The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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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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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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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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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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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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To be is to do.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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