Immanuel Kant Quotes
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The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable of the greatest happiness.
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All our knowledge falls with the bounds of experience.
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Do the right thing because it is right.
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The problem of establishing a perfect civic constitution is dependent upon the problem of a lawful external relation among states and cannot be solved without a solution of the latter problem.
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I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself.
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Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself.
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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
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Die menschliche Vernunft hat hier, wie allerwärts in ihrem reinen Gebrauche, so lange es ihr an Kritik fehlt, vorher alle mögliche unrechte Wege versucht, ehe es ihr gelingt, den einzigen wahren zu treffen.
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Human reason is by nature architectonic.
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Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.
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Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
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it is absurd … to hope that maybe another Newton may some day arise, to make intelligible to us even the genesis of but a blade of grass ('Dialectic of Teleological Judgment' §75)
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Do what is right, though the world may perish.
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Things which we see are not by themselves what we see ... It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may be by themselves and apart from the receptivity of our senses. We know nothing but our manner of perceiving them.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?
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The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.
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The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.
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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
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Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.
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So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
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Es ist so bequem, unmündig zu sein. Habe ich ein Buch, das für mich Verstand hat, einen Seelsorger, der für mich Gewissen hat, einen Arzt, der für mich die Diät beurtheilt u. s. w., so brauche ich mich ja nicht selbst zu bemühen. Ich habe nicht nöthig zu denken, wenn ich nur bezahlen kann.