Immanuel Kant Quotes, Order Quotes, Miserable Quotes

Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable, which is infinitely worse than non-existence?

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A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the human race must be regarded as possible and, indeed, as contributing to this end of Nature.

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Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.

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Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity...No thing is required for this enlightenment.. .except freedom; and the freedom in question is the least harmful of all, namely, the freedom to use reason publicly in all matters.

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All our knowledge falls with the bounds of experience.

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

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The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.

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If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness.

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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

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[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.

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

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He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray

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It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err — not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all.

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***Three Conditions of Happiness*** If you have work to do If you have someone you love If You have hope Then You are Happy now!

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There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise.

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Art is purposiveness without purpose.

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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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Laziness and cowardice explain why so many men. . . remain under a life-long tutelage and why it is so easy for some men to set themselves up as the guardians of all the rest. . . If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a doctor who decides my diet, I need not trouble myself. If I am willing to pay, I need not think. Others will do it for me.

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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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If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.

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