Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
IMMANUEL KANTNever wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Dare to think!
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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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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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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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