Immanuil Kant quotes Born: 04/22/1724 Died: 02/12/1804 Country: germany

• A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose. (Immanuil Kant)
• Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. (Immanuil Kant)
• All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. (Immanuil Kant)
• Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end. (Immanuil Kant)
• But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience. (Immanuil Kant)
• By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man. (Immanuil Kant)
• Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.' (Immanuil Kant)
• Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. (Immanuil Kant)
• Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. (Immanuil Kant)
• 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. (Immanuil Kant)
• I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief. (Immanuil Kant)
• If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on. (Immanuil Kant)
• Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. (Immanuil Kant)
• 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. (Immanuil Kant)
• Ingratitude is the essence of vileness. (Immanuil Kant)
• It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience. (Immanuil Kant)
• It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy. (Immanuil Kant)
• 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. (Immanuil Kant)
• May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law. (Immanuil Kant)
• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. (Immanuil Kant)
• Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands. (Immanuil Kant)
• Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. (Immanuil Kant)
• 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 (Immanuil Kant)
• 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. (Immanuil Kant)
• Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. (Immanuil Kant)
• To be is to do. (Immanuil Kant)
• Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. (Immanuil Kant)

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