All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Quote by Immanuel Kant

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Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually...

Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually...

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of...

What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of...

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

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

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

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics...

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics...

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises...

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises...

That Logic has advanced in this sure course, even from the earliest times, is apparent...

That Logic has advanced in this sure course, even from the earliest times, is apparent...

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics...

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics...

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as...

By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as...

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself,...

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself,...

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We...

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We...

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we...

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we...

The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it...

The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it...

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's...

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's...

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than...

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than...

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be...

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be...