Immanuel Kant famous quotes

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Heart #Men #Animal

Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Inspirational #Motivational #Happiness

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Life #Motivational #Success

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

#Understanding #Perception #Reason

Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Inspirational #Beautiful #Looks

There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Innocence #Splendid #Protect

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

#Fear #Philosophical #Science

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Inspirational #Relationship #Integrity

One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Inspirational #People #Complaining

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

#Inspirational #Philosophical #Play

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Philosophical #Intuition #Blind

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

#Intelligence #Immature #Immaturity

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Inspirational #Poverty #Rich

Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt
-- Immanuel Kant

#Beautiful #Pain #Mind

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

#Freedom #Law #Might

One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Able #Dignity #Rich

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

#Mean #Voice #Numbers

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

#Life #Integrity #Law

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

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

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Humanity #Made #Timber

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Men #Humanity #Force

Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Law #Principles #Action

An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Agents #Action #Goodness

I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature; she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Mom #Mother #Heart

Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Mean #Compassion #People

Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
-- Immanuel Kant

#Giving #World #Matter

Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.
-- Immanuel Kant

#School #Thinking #Roots

The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Power #Use #Reason

Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Men #People #Design

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know!
-- Immanuel Kant

#Courage #Lying #Men

If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Justice #Earth #Lost

Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not everything
-- Immanuel Kant

#Men #Giving #Want

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Life #Honesty #Children

Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Freedom #Men #Law

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 and the moral law within.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Science #Law #Two

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Happiness #Happy #Laughter

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

#Fear #Truth #Honesty

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

#Order #Rooms #Belief

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Gratitude #Essence #Inspirational Christmas

Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It is because of laziness and cowardice that it is so easy for others to usurp the role of guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor!
-- Immanuel Kant

#Immature #Roles #Laziness

Art is purposiveness without purpose.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Art #Purpose #Art Is

Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Men #Order #Concern

There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Doubt

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Mean #Ends #Treated

If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Justice #Miserable #Murder

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

#Happiness #Should

Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion may differ, the will of all is therefore not that of all: which is contradictory and opposite to liberty.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Opposites #Liberty #Democracy

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
-- Immanuel Kant

#Hope

Honesty is better than any policy.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Honesty #Policy

God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Fashion #Art #Nature

Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Nature #Law #Chaos

The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience
-- Immanuel Kant

#Example #May #Brilliant

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Inspirational #Order #Quests

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe...
-- Immanuel Kant

#Two #Mind #Ethics

All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Knowledge #Science #Ideas

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Ethics #Morality #Dogma

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Reality #Men #Progress

Natural science physics contains in itself synthetical judgments a priori, as principles. ... Space then is a necessary representation a priori, which serves for the foundation of all external intuitions.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Space #Words Of Wisdom #Intuition

In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Beautiful #Judgement #Opinion

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

#Philosophical #Reality #Doe

Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Reason #Should #Parameters

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

#Philosophy #Philosophical #Ocean

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

#Philosophical #Would Be #Purpose

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

#Philosophical #Men #Complaining

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

#Philosophy #May #Three

Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Reality #Space #Mind

The two great dividers are religion and LANGUAGE
-- Immanuel Kant

#Two #Language

The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour, the more we love them, for we see how great is their care of the young.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Love #Animal #Behaviour

How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Lying #Perfection

For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Earth #Reign #Firsts

The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Book #Biblical #Race

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Life #Success #Lying

Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Thinking #Names #Giving

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
-- Immanuel Kant

#Use #Dare

Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.
-- Immanuel Kant

#Respect #Mean #Men

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

#Happiness #Honesty #Integrity