Immanuel Kant Quotes

For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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Human Humanity Learning Peace
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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Freedom Necessary
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
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Man Moral Potential Purpose Reality Wild
Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.
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Material Science World
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Man Spiritual
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
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Freedom Power Reason
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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Heaven Hope Human Laughter Sleep
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Empty Thinking
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
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Happiness Humanity Misery Reason
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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Children Patience Time Truth
Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Easy Greatness Philosophy
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Himself Oneself People Worth
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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Act Law Moral Time
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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Feeling Life Live
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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God Hell Knowledge
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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Genius Independent Learning Person
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
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Enough Reason Simplicity
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
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Freedom Man Release Religion
If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
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Humanity Philosophy
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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Freedom Moral Willing Yourself
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
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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Human Inspirational Love Man War

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