The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
IMMANUEL KANTThe outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
IMMANUEL KANTSimply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
IMMANUEL KANTRules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
IMMANUEL KANTThe possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
IMMANUEL KANTIt is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
IMMANUEL KANTBetter the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
IMMANUEL KANTLook closely. The beautiful may be small.
IMMANUEL KANTSince the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
IMMANUEL KANTThe busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
IMMANUEL KANTWoman wants control, man self-control.
IMMANUEL KANTOnly the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
IMMANUEL KANTBy a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
IMMANUEL KANTThe enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
IMMANUEL KANTArt is purposiveness without purpose.
IMMANUEL KANTIf God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
IMMANUEL KANTHuman beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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