Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
IMMANUEL KANTMan desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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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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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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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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Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept 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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If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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