 Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the

strong.
Immanuel Kant

But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good
or bad intents.
Immanuel Kant
Lying, Evil
Immanuel Kant (1963). “Lectures on ethics”
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Do the right thing because it is right.
Immanuel Kant
Courage, Honesty, Integrity
Immanuel Kant (2005). “Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals”, p.39, Broadview
Press
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Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them
as means to your end.
Immanuel Kant
Inspirational, Relationship, Integrity
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 Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant
Life, Motivational, Success
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 Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because
they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning
abilities. It takes intellectual daring to discover the truth.
Immanuel Kant
Men, Thinking, Intellectual
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 The only thing permanent is change.

Immanuel Kant
Permanent
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 Enlightenment is man's leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is

the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Such immaturity is self-caused if it is not caused by lack of intelligence,
but by lack of determination and courage to use one's intelligence
without being guided by another. Sapere Aude! Have the courage to use
your own intelligence! is therefore the motto of the enlightenment.
Immanuel Kant
Determination, Men, Self
"Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?". Essay by Immanuel Kant, 1784.
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 We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Immanuel Kant
Dog, Heart, Animal
"True animal instinct", www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005. 
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 He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men.
We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Immanuel Kant
Heart, Men, Animal
Immanuel Kant (1963). “Lectures on ethics”
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 Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not

everything
Immanuel Kant
Men, Giving, Want
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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.
Immanuel Kant
Nature, Two, Awe And Wonder
Critique of Practical Reason conclusion (1788) (translation by Lewis White Beck)
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 Honesty is better than any policy.

Immanuel Kant
Honesty, Policy
Immanuel Kant, Pauline Kleingeld, Jeremy Waldron, Michael W. Doyle, Allen W. Wood
(2006). “Toward Perpetual Peace and Other Writings on Politics, Peace, and History”,
p.94, Yale University Press
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 Look closely. The beautiful may be small.

Immanuel Kant
Inspirational, Beautiful, Looks
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 If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning.

Immanuel Kant
Justice, Earth, Lost
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 It is never too late to become reasonable and wise.
Immanuel Kant
Wise, Too Late, Reasonable
Immanuel Kant, James Wesley Ellington (2001). “Prolegomena to Any Future
Metaphysics (Second Edition): and the Letter to Marcus Herz, February 1772”, p.2,
Hackett Publishing
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 Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere

intellectual play.
Immanuel Kant
Inspirational, Philosophical, Play
"General Systems" Vol. 7-8, by he Society for the Advancement of General Systems
Theory, (p. 11), 1962.
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 Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Immanuel Kant
Gratitude, Essence, Inspirational Christmas
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 I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Immanuel Kant
Order, Rooms, Belief
Immanuel Kant (1905). “Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, in Commemoration
of the Centenary of Its First Publication”
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 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
Inspirational, Trust, Betrayal
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