Immanuel Kant Quotes, Determination Quotes, Law Quotes

Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representations of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind.

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The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a kind to satisfy this aim most completely.

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Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.

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Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.

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Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.

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I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge.

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Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.

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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

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Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent.

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

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Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion may differ, the will of all is therefore not that of all: which is contradictory and opposite to liberty.

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

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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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Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

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Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.

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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

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Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.

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The only thing permanent is change.

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An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.

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Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.

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