Immanuel Kant Quotes, Men Quotes, Race Quotes

In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.

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Reason can never prove the existence of God.

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If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning.

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So act that anything you do may become universal law.

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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

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[Aristotle formal logic thus far (1787)] has not been able to advance a single step, and hence is to all appearances closed and completed.

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

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The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

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

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The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it what a flower or an insect does in comparison with the Earth.

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Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease... and throw himself into roils and labors.

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Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray.

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I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy.

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Since the narrower or wider community of the peoples of the earth has developed so far that a violation of rights in one place is felt throughout the world, the idea of a cosmopolitan right is not fantastical, high-flown or exaggerated notion. It is a complement to the unwritten code of the civil and international law, necessary for the public rights of mankind in general and thus for the realization of perpetual peace.

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

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

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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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