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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

- Immanuel Kant

Knowledge, Doubt, Begins, Experience

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

- Immanuel Kant

Happiness, How, May, Worthy

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

- Immanuel Kant

Reason, Nothing, Divine, Agreeable

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

- Immanuel Kant

Thought, Other, Given, Sensibility

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

- Immanuel Kant

Experience, Play, Blind, Intellectual

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

- Immanuel Kant

Worm, Himself, Makes, Complain

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

Some, Them, Constitute, Yield

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

- Immanuel Kant

Weigh, Means, Lawful, Multitude

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

- Immanuel Kant

Necessary, Should, Happily, Whilst

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

- Immanuel Kant

Begins, Although, Does, Arises

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

- Immanuel Kant

Other, Which, Categorical, Objectively

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

- Immanuel Kant

Ocean, Lighthouse, Wreck, Metaphysics

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

- Immanuel Kant

Guidance, Use, Immaturity, Incapacity

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

- Immanuel Kant

Mankind, Bad, Greek, Philosophers

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

- Immanuel Kant

Knowledge, Reason, Senses, Proceeds

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

- Immanuel Kant

Made, Straight, Which, Wood

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?

- Immanuel Kant

Reason, May, Practical, Combine

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

- Immanuel Kant

Hope, Know, Ought

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

- Immanuel Kant

Knowledge, Had, Therefore, Order

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

- Immanuel Kant

Recognition, Divine, Our, Commands

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

- Immanuel Kant

Made, Straight, Which, Entirely

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

- Immanuel Kant

Reason, Principle, Meant, Shunned

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

- Immanuel Kant

Sky, Law, Most, Awe

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

- Immanuel Kant

Law, Act, Though, Universal

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

- Immanuel Kant

Law, May, Maxim, Universal

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

- Immanuel Kant

Life, Knowledge, Science, Organized

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

- Immanuel Kant

Law, Act, Principle, Safely

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

- Immanuel Kant

Law, Act, Principle, Safely

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

- Immanuel Kant

Ethics, Law, Doing, Thinks

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

- Immanuel Kant

Happiness, Happy, Will, Merely

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