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• Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

  Immanuel Kant

  Religious, Philosophical, Recognition

  Immanuel Kant, Allen Wood, George Di Giovanni (1998). “Kant: Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: And Other Writings”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

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• Men will not understand ... that when they fulfil their duties to men, they fulfil thereby God's commandments; that they are consequently always in the service of God, as long as their actions are moral, and that it is absolutely impossible to serve God otherwise.

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, Long, Action

  "German Thought, From The Seven Years' War To Goethe's Death : Six Lectures" by Karl Hillebrand, (p. 207), 1880.

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• The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced.

  Immanuel Kant

  Blessing, Humanity, Existence

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• If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.

  Immanuel Kant

  Exercise, May, Human Nature

  Immanuel Kant, Annette Churton (2003). “On Education”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Song, Men, Bird

  Immanuel Kant (2016). “The Critique of Judgement”, p.94, Jester House Publishing

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• Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner than however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to its present conditions. But they ought to give them an education so much better than this, that a better condition of things may thereby be brought about by the future.

  Immanuel Kant

  Children, Giving, Parent

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• In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. Whatever has a price can be replaced by something else as its equivalent; on the other hand, whatever is above all price, and therefore admits of no equivalent, has a dignity. But that which constitutes the condition under which alone something can be an end in itself does not have mere relative worth, i.e., price, but an intrinsic worth, i.e., a dignity.

  Immanuel Kant

  Hands, Doe, Kingdoms

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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 union can knowledge arise.

  Immanuel Kant

  Knowledge, Science, Thinking

  Immanuel Kant (1965). “Critique of pure reason”

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• If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.

  Immanuel Kant

  Justice, Murder, Miserable

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• Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

  Immanuel Kant

  Mean, Ends, Treated

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• Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the power of knowing an object through these representations (spontaneity [in the production] of concepts).

  Immanuel Kant

  Spring, Knowledge, Science

  Immanuel Kant (2013). “Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason”, p.61, Read Books Ltd

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• Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation a priori.

  Immanuel Kant

  Words Of Wisdom, Foundation, Would Be

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

  Immanuel Kant

  Natural, Ends, Capacity

  Immanuel Kant (1986). “Philosophical Writings”, Continuum

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• This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function. Such governments are illuminated by the example that the existence of freedom need not give cause for the least concern regarding public order and harmony in the commonwealth. If only they refrain from inventing artifices to keep themselves in it, men will gradually raise themselves from barbarism.

  Immanuel Kant

  Struggle, Men, Order

  Immanuel Kant (1983). “Perpetual Peace and Other Essays: on Politics, History, and Morals”, p.45, Hackett Publishing

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• Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.

  Immanuel Kant

  Mean, Skills, Care

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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 and the moral law within.

  Immanuel Kant

  Science, Law, Two

  Critique of Practical Reason conclusion (1788) (translation by Lewis White Beck)

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• Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.

  Immanuel Kant

  Nature, Science, Order

  Immanuel Kant (1900). “Kant's cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens: With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham”

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• I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.

  Immanuel Kant

  Encounters, Substance, Natural

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• I learned to honor human beings, and I would find myself far more useless than the common laborer if I did not believe that this consideration could impart to all others a value establishing the rights of humanity.

  Immanuel Kant

  Believe, Rights, Humanity

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

  Immanuel Kant

  Yield, Intuition, Elements

  Immanuel Kant (2013). “Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason”, p.61, Read Books Ltd

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• The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation. But it is one of the worthiest inquiries to see how far our reason can go in the knowledge of God.

  Immanuel Kant

  Philosophy, Inquiry, Knowledge Of God

  Immanuel Kant, Allen W. Wood (1986). “Lectures on Philosophical Theology”, p.23, Cornell University Press

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

  Immanuel Kant

  Mean, Goal, Doe

  Immanuel Kant (1986). “Philosophical Writings”, Continuum

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• Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

  Immanuel Kant

  Freedom, Law, Principles

  "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals". Book by Immanuel Kant, 1785.

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• He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray

  Immanuel Kant

  Religion, Progress, Atheism

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• Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be compelled to do by another is to adopt a particular end. - 'Metaphysical Principles of Virtue

  Immanuel Kant

  Adoption, Humanity, Principles

  "Metaphysics of Morals". Book by Immanuel Kant, Part Two : Metaphysical Principles of Virtue, 1797.

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