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Explore profound insights from the philosopher Immanuel Kant. This collection features his most impactful quotes on knowledge, reason, morality, and the human condition. Discover ideas that shaped modern thought and continue to inspire. Similar thinkers include John Locke, David Hume, and René Descartes.

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00:00All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason.
00:07There is in us nothing higher than reason.
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00:14Science is organized knowledge.
00:17Wisdom is organized life.
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00:25Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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00:36Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadfastly we reflect
00:42upon them, the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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00:52Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy
00:57of happiness.
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01:03Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any
01:09other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.
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01:19Ours is an age of criticism, and to criticism everything must submit.
01:25Religion and legislation, the public and its private rulers and teachers, are, for the most part, unable to resist it.
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01:37The proper use of reason is to discover the limits of reason.
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01:47Ignorance is the source of all true ignorance, and the parent of all mischief.
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02:03We are not rich by possessions, but by the diminution of our wants.
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02:13Happiness is not a property, but a mood.
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02:21If justice perishes, then it is no longer of any worth for men to live on the earth.
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02:31A human being is a being with the capacity to set himself goals.
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02:40The ultimate aim of human existence is to attain the highest good.
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02:50Dare to know
02:51Have courage to use your own understanding.
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02:59The unexamined life is not worth living.
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03:08Enlightenment
03:09Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage.
03:13Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without guidance from another.
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03:23Thought without content is empty, intuition without concept is blind.
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03:32Beauty is a symbolic representation of the morally good.
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