Immanuel Kant Quotes, Assuming Quotes, Deny Quotes

Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?

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Moral Teleology supplies the deficiency in physical Teleology , and first establishes a Theology ; because the latter, if it did not borrow from the former without being observed, but were to proceed consistently, could only found a Demonology , which is incapable of any definite concept.

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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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Beneficence is a duty.

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Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be compelled to do by another is to adopt a particular end. - 'Metaphysical Principles of Virtue

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Men will not understand ... that when they fulfil their duties to men, they fulfil thereby God's commandments; that they are consequently always in the service of God, as long as their actions are moral, and that it is absolutely impossible to serve God otherwise.

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No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been made.

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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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In the mere concept of one thing it cannot be found any character of its existence.

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Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.

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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.

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Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom.

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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

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. . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws: and besides, feelings which naturally differ infinitely in degree cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has any one a right to form judgments for others by his own feelings. . . .

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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

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Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.

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Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

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The only thing permanent is change.

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

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

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