An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
IMMANUEL KANTExperience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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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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Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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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 reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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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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Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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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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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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