Immanuel Kant Quotes, Spring Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the power of knowing an object through these representations (spontaneity [in the production] of concepts).

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It is never too late to become reasonable and wise.

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No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law ? i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.

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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

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Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man.

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The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity.

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Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.

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It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.

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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

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What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?

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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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Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.

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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

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Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.

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[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.

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There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.

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The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.

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Human reason has the peculiar fate in one species of its cognitions that it is burdened with questions which it cannot dismiss, since they are given to it as problems by the nature of reason itself, but which it also cannot answer, since they transcend every capacity of human reason.

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