Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law
Tag: Immanuel Kant
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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
That all our knowledge begins with experience, there is indeed no doubt….but although our knowledge originates WITH experience, it does not all arise OUT OF experience.
Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords