Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
IMMANUEL KANTGive me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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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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Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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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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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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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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By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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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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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Since 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.
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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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