All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
IMMANUEL KANTWhat can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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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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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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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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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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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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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
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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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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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