The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
IMMANUEL KANTHappiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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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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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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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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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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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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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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