It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
IMMANUEL KANTNever wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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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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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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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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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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To be is to do.
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Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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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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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 possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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