Immanuel Kant Quotes, Understanding Quotes, Sublime Quotes

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

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Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.

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Here I shall add that the concept of change, and with it the concept of motion, as change of place, is possible only through and in the representation of time. & Motion, for example, presupposes the perception of something movable. But space considered in itself contains nothing movable; consequently motion must be something which is found in space only through experience -in other words, is an empirical datum.

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Art is purposiveness without purpose.

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Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

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Always regard every man as an end in himself, and never use him merely as a means to your ends [i.e., respect that each person has a life and purpose that is their own; do not treat people as objects to be exploited].

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Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to no law according to which any calculation could be made beforehand of their amount; and yet the yearly registers of these events in great countries prove that they go on with as much conformity to the laws of nature as the oscillations of the weather.

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Maturity is having the courage to use one's own intelligence!

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For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.

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Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.

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It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

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The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.

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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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The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.

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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

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I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

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Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard.

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In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.

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A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.

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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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