The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
IMMANUEL KANTNever wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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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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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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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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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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By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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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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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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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.
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