It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
IMMANUEL KANTExperience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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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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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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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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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Dare to think!
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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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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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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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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By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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