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1. "I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith." ~ Immanuel Kant
2. "Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end" ~ Immanuel Kant
3. "Coffee! Coffee!" ~ Immanuel Kant
4. "True politics cannot take a single step without first paying homage to morals, and while politics itself is a difficult art, its combination with morals is no art at all; for morals cuts the Gordian knot which politics cannot solve as soon as the two are in conflict." ~ Immanuel Kant
5. "The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? (Critique of Pure Reason" ~ Immanuel Kant
6. "...new prejudices will serve as well as old ones to harness the great unthinking masses.For this enlightenment, however, nothing is required but freedom, and indeed the most harmless among all the things to which this term can properly be applied. It is the freedom to make public use of one's reason at every point. But I hear on all sides, 'Do not argue!' The Officer says: 'Do not argue but drill!' The tax collector: 'Do not argue but pay!' The cleric: 'Do not argue but believe!' Only one prince in the world says, 'Argue as much as you will, and about what you will, but obey!' Everywhere there is restriction on freedom." ~ Immanuel Kant
7. "sapere aude." ~ Immanuel Kant
8. "Mathematics, natural science, laws, arts, even morality, etc. do not completely fill the soul; there is always a space left over reserved for pure and speculative reason, the emptiness of which prompts us to seek in vagaries, buffooneries, and mysticism for what seems to be employment and entertainment, but what actually is mere pastime undertaken in order to deaden the troublesome voice of reason, which, in accordance with its nature, requires something that can satisfy it and does not merely subserve other ends or the interests of our inclinations." ~ Immanuel Kant
9. "Toute intuition sans concept n'aboutit pasTout concept sans intuition est vide" ~ Immanuel Kant
10. "What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown" ~ Immanuel Kant
11. "In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. What has a price can be replaced by something else as its equivalent; what on the other hand is raised above all price and therefore admits of no equivalent has a dignity." ~ Immanuel Kant
12. "For if we regard space and time as properties that must, as regards their possibility, be found in things in themselves, [...] then we really cannot blame the good Bishop Berkeley for degrading bodies to mere illusion. Nay, even our own existence, which would thus be made dependent on the self-subsistent reality of a non-entity such as time, would, along with this time, be changed into mere illusion - an absurdity of which hitherto no one has been guilty." ~ Immanuel Kant
13. "Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.." ~ Immanuel Kant
14. "Denken zonder ervaring is leeg, maar ervaring zonder denken is blind." ~ Immanuel Kant
15. "Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (naturaliter maiorennes), nevertheless remains under lifelong tutelage, and why it is so easy for others to set themselves up as their guardians. It is so easy not to be of age. If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a physician who decides my diet, and so forth, I need not trouble myself. I need not think, if I can only pay - others will easily undertake the irksome work for me.That the step to competence is held to be very dangerous by the far greater portion of mankind..." ~ Immanuel Kant
16. "One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him." ~ Immanuel Kant
17. "By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man." ~ Immanuel Kant
18. "All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason." ~ Immanuel Kant
19. "Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law." ~ Immanuel Kant
20. "It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy." ~ Immanuel Kant
21. "To be is to do." ~ Immanuel Kant
22. "Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world." ~ Immanuel Kant
23. "Ingratitude is the essence of vileness." ~ Immanuel Kant
24. "From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned." ~ Immanuel Kant
25. "Dare to think!" ~ Immanuel Kant
26. "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." ~ Immanuel Kant
27. "Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me." ~ Immanuel Kant
28. "The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs." ~ Immanuel Kant
29. "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, i.e. in itself; and, considered by itself, it is to be esteemed beyond compare much higher than anything that could ever be brought about by it in favor of some inclinations, and indeed, if you will, the sum of all inclinations. Even if by some particular disfavor of fate, or by the scanty endowment of a stepmotherly nature, this will should entirely lack the capacity to carry through its purpose; if despite its greatest striving it should still accomplish nothing, and only the good will were to remain (not of course, as a mere wish, but as the summoning of all means that are within our control); then, like a jewel, it would still shine by itself, as something that has full worth in itself"." ~ Immanuel Kant
30. "Give me matter and i will build a world out of it." ~ Immanuel Kant
31. "Les esprits qui ont le sentiment du sublime sont entraînés insensiblement vers les sentiments élevés de l'amitié, du mépris du monde, de l'éternité, par le calme et le silence d'une soirée d'été, alors que la lumière tremblante des étoiles perce les ombres de la nuit, et que la lune solitaire paraît à l'horizon. Le jour brillant inspire l'ardeur du travail et le sentiment de la joie. Le sublime émeut, le beau charme." ~ Immanuel Kant
32. "Il difetto di giudizio è propriamente quello che si chiama stupidità, difetto cui non c'è modo di arrecare rimedio. Una testa ottusa o limitata, alla quale non manchi altro che un conveniente grado di intelletto […], si può ben armare mediante l'insegnamento fino a farne magari un dotto. Ma, poiché in tal caso di solito avviene che sia sempre in difetto di giudizio […], non è raro il caso di uomini assai dotti, i quali nell'uso della loro scienza lasciano spesso scorgere quel tal difetto, che non si lascia mai correggere." ~ Immanuel Kant
33. "????? ????? ?????????? ???????? ?? ????????, ?????? ????????????? ?? ???? ???????? ? ?????? ? ???????? ?????? ?? ????????? ? ??????, ? ???????? conditio sine qua non. ??-??????? ????? ???????? ?? ???? ?? ????? ? ? ??????? ?????? ????? ?? ?? ???? ?? ?????? ????????, ????? ?????? ?? ???????, ? ????????????." ~ Immanuel Kant
34. "Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord." ~ Immanuel Kant
35. "Agisci in modo da considerare l'umanità, sia nella tua persona, sia nella persona di ogni altro, sempre anche come scopo, e mai come semplice mezzo." ~ Immanuel Kant
36. "Our age is the age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds of exemption from the examination of this tribunal. But, if they on they are exempted, they become the subjects of just suspicion, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.]" ~ Immanuel Kant
37. "Even the song of birds, which we can bring under no musical rule, seems to have more freedom, and therefore more for taste, than a song of a human being which is produced in accordance with all the rules of music; for we very much sooner weary of the latter, if it is repeated often and at length. Here, however, we probably confuse our participation in the mirth of a little creature that we love, with the beauty of its song; for if this were exactly imitated by man (as sometimes the notes of the nightingale are) it would seem to our ear quite devoid of taste." ~ Immanuel Kant
38. "Even if, by some especially unfortunate fate or by the niggardly provision of stepmotherly nature, [the good will] should be wholly lacking in the power to accomplish its purpose; if with the greatest effort it should yet achieve nothing, and only the good will should remain (not, to be sure, as a mere wish but as the summoning of all the means in our power), yet would it, like a jewel, still shine by its own light as something which has its full value in itself." ~ Immanuel Kant
39. "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." ~ Immanuel Kant
40. "Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason." ~ Immanuel Kant
41. "But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience." ~ Immanuel Kant
42. "Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence." ~ Immanuel Kant
43. "Handle so, daß die Maxime deines Willens jederzeit zugleich als Prinzip einer allgemeinen Gesetzgebung gelten könne." ~ Immanuel Kant
44. "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made." ~ Immanuel Kant
45. "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" ~ Immanuel Kant
46. "It is an empirical judgement [to say] that I perceive and judge an object with pleasure. But it is an a priori judgement [to say] that I find it beautiful, i.e. I attribute this satisfaction necessarily to every one." ~ Immanuel Kant
47. "Skepticism is thus a resting-place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings and make survey of the region in which it finds itself, so that for the future it may be able to choose its path with more certainty. But it is no dwelling-place for permanent settlement. Such can be obtained only through perfect certainty in our knowledge, alike of the objects themselves and of the limits within which all our knowledge of objects is enclosed." ~ Immanuel Kant
48. "In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics." ~ Immanuel Kant
49. "Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. Immanuel Kant " ~ Immanuel Kant
50. "[To think for oneself] is the maxim of a reason never passive. The tendency to such passivity, and therefore to heteronomy of reason, is called prejudice; and the greatest prejudice of all is to represent nature as not subject to the rules that the understanding places at its basis by means of its own essential law, i.e. is superstition. Deliverance from superstition is called enlightenment; because although this name belongs to deliverance from prejudices in general, yet superstition especially (in sensu eminenti) deserves to be called a prejudice. For the blindness in which superstition places us, which it even imposes on us as an obligation, makes the need of being guided by others, and the consequent passive state of our reason, peculiarly noticeable." ~ Immanuel Kant
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