Immanuel Kant Quotes, Perception Quotes, May Quotes

Things which we see are not by themselves what we see ... It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may be by themselves and apart from the receptivity of our senses. We know nothing but our manner of perceiving them.

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If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself.

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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.

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

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But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.

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Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.

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Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.

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Honesty is better than any policy.

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Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience.

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The desire which a man has for a woman is not directed towards her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman ; that she is a human being is of no concern to the man; only her sex is the object of his desires.

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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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Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

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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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Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.

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The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

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

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

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Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes

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Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

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