All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

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...

Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form

Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form

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.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be...

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be...

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...

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions,...

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions,...

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

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...

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

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

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,...

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the...

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the...

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...

Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination

Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination

The nice part about living in a small town is that when you don't know...

The nice part about living in a small town is that when you don't know...

Don't let negative pictures play on the movie screen of your mind. You own the...

Don't let negative pictures play on the movie screen of your mind. You own the...

A house is a machine for living in.

A house is a machine for living in.