“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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“Dare to think!”
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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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“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their unison can knowledge arise.”
― Immanuel kant
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“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.”
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“it was the duty of philosophy to destroy the illusions which had their origin in misconceptions, whatever darling hopes and valued expectations may be ruined by its explanations.”
― Immanuel kant
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“Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”
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“The death of dogma is the birth of morality.” ― Immanuel kant |
“Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.” ― Immanuel kant |
“In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.”
― Immanuel kant
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“Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.”
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“A good will is good not because of what it effects, or accomplishes, not because of its fitness to attain some intended end, but good just by its willing,
― Immanuel kant
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“Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment..."
― Immanuel kant
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“Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.” ― Immanuel kant |
“But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.”
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“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” ― Immanuel kant |
“Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.”
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“Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.”
― Immanuel kant |
“Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another.”
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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;
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