Immanuel Kant Quotes

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
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Break Up End Human
It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
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Bad Perspective Philosophy
To be is to do.
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Action Existence
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
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Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Happiness Hope Love
Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
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Freedom Human Right
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
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Reason Time
Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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Art Beautiful Nature
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
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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Happiness Moral Ourselves Self Love Worth
Woman wants control, man self-control.
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Control Man One Liner Woman
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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Heaven Law Mindset Moral Myself
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
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Greatness Human Philosophy
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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Philosophy Spiritual
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Courage Daring Intelligence
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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Experience Mindset Reality Space Time
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
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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End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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Break End Human Race
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Born Death Mad Moral
The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
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Act Judgement Life Result
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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Art Purpose
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Material Philosophy Rich

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