Immanuel Kant Quotes, Spring Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the power of knowing an object through these representations (spontaneity [in the production] of concepts).

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Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

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Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling to the people for not having insisted upon this punishment; for otherwise the people can be regarded as collaborators in his public violation of justice.

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I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.

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

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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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What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?

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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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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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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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Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.

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

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The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

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The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour, the more we love them, for we see how great is their care of the young.

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What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.

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

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Human reason is by nature architectonic.

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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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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.

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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

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