From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
IMMANUEL KANTHow then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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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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The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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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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Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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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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The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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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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Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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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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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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