Immanuel Kant Quotes, Suicide Quotes, Suicidal Quotes

...as soon as we examine suicide from the standpoint of religion we immediately see it in its true light. We have been placed in this world under certain conditions and for specific purposes. But a suicide opposes the purpose of his creator; he arrives in the other world as one who has deserted his post; he must be looked upon as a rebel against God. God is our owner; we are his property; his providence works for our good.

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The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend — and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him.

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When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any

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Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose. To this single idea must the revolution be ascribed, by which, after groping in the dark for so many centuries, natural science was at length conducted into the path of certain progress.

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Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.

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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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Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.

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A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

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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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Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.

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

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Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal.

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Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt

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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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It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.

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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)

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Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. Her giving to man reason and the freedom of the will which depends upon it is clear indication of her purpose. Man accordingly was not to be guided by instinct, not nurtured and instructed with ready-made knowledge; rather, he should bring forth everything out of his own resources.

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All our knowledge begins with the senses...

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

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The sceptics, a kind of nomads, despising all settled culture of the land, broke up from time to time all civil society. Fortunately their number was small, and they could not prevent the old settlers from returning to cultivate the ground afresh, though without any fixed plan or agreement.

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