Immanuel Kant Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Thoughtful Quotes

When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.

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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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Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.

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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!

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Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.

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Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings

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Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly.

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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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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

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Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know!

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The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth

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Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion may differ, the will of all is therefore not that of all: which is contradictory and opposite to liberty.

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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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The only thing permanent is change.

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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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The only thing that is good without qualification is a good will.

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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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All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

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Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.

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God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.

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