To be is to do.
IMMANUEL KANTAn action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
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There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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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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Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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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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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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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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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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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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Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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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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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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