Immanuel Kant Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
-- Immanuel KantSource : "True animal instinct", www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.
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“Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”
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“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
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“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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“Look closely. The beautiful may be small.”
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“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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“Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.”
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“Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.”
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“One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.”
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“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.”
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“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.”
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“Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.”
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“We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”
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“Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt”
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“Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.”
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“One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.”
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“Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.”
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“Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.”
-- Immanuel KantSource : "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals". Book by Immanuel Kant, 1785.
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“In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.”
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“Enlightenment is man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but by lack of determination and courage to use one's intelligence without being guided by another. Sapere Aude! Have the courage to use your own intelligence! is therefore the motto of the enlightenment...”
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“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”
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“Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.”
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“Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.”
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“An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.”
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“I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature; she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life.”
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“Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.”
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“Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!”
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“Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.”
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“The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.”
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“Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.”
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