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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All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

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He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray

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

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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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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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The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable of the greatest happiness.

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The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

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The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.

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Act in such a way that you will be worthy of being happy.

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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

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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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It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.

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A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral.

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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

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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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The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.

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All appearances have a determinate magnitude (the relation of which to another assignable). The infinite does not appear as such, likewise not the simple. For the appearances are included between two boundaries (points) and are thus themselves determinate magnitudes.

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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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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.

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