Immanuel Kant Quotes

He 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.
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Animal Heart Himself Judgement Man
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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Bad Philosophy Protection Weakness
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
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Beautiful Judgement Opinion
Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
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God Goodness Herself Man Nature
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
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Humanity Moral
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Crime Justice Moral Protection Right
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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Business Greatness Material Reason
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Education Hope Lie Perfection
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
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Courage Philosophy Reason Spiritual
The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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Hands Perspective See
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Hope Myself
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
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Creation Dignity Value
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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Independent Man Understand
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
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Material Science World
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Divine Reason
The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
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Freedom God History Man Nature
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
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Death Kill Truth
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Experience Intellectual Play
What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown.
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Emotion Ourselves Relationship Separate
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich

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