The 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.
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.
IMMANUEL KANTArt is purposiveness without purpose.
IMMANUEL KANTA great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
IMMANUEL KANTMorality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
IMMANUEL KANTHuman beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
IMMANUEL KANTExperience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
IMMANUEL KANTNothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
IMMANUEL KANTHeaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
IMMANUEL KANTBy a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
IMMANUEL KANTBut, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
IMMANUEL KANTEnlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
IMMANUEL KANTBut although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
IMMANUEL KANTWe are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
IMMANUEL KANTIf the truth shall kill them, let them die.
IMMANUEL KANTSimply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
IMMANUEL KANTWar 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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