Immanuel Kant Short Quotes

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Mathematical judgments are always synthetical.

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The master is himself an animal, and needs a master.

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Give me matter and I will construct a world out of it!

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All our knowledge falls with the bounds of experience.

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Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.

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It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

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There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

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If justice perishes, there is no further point in men living on earth.

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I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

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I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself.

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

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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

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All appearances are real and negatio; sophistical: All reality must be sensation.

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A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.

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Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification.

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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

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If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.

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Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.

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All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end.

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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

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Two things fill me with awe: the starry heavens and the sense of moral responsibility in man.

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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own reason! This is the motto of the Enlightenment.

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Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?

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All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

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

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Metaphysics has as the proper object of its enquiries three ideas only: God, freedom, and immortality.

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Of a universal civic society:
This problem is the most difficult and the last to be solved by mankind.

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I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.

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