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.
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.
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.
The possession of power unavoidably spoils the free use of reason.
The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience.
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?
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Human reason is by nature architectonic.
The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.
Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually progress from one level of insight to another
God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.
The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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