From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
IMMANUEL KANTHe who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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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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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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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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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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