Immanuel Kant Quotes, Plato Quotes, Cutting Quotes

The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it could do even better in airless space. Likewise, Plato abandoned the world of the senses because it posed so many hindrances for the understanding, and dared to go beyond it on the wings of the ideas, in the empty space of pure understanding.

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Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not everything

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By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

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We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.

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If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.

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Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation a priori.

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When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any

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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

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

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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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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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The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.

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Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.

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Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.

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

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Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.

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Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility

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Notion without intuition is empty, intuition without notion is blind.

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Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

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There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.

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