The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
IMMANUEL KANTThe history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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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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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Dare to think!
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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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By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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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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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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It 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.
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Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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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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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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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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