Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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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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War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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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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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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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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Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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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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