From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
IMMANUEL KANTFrom the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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To be is to do.
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Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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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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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Dare to think!
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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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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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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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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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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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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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You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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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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