Immanuel Kant > Quotes

“Rules for Happiness:
something to do,
someone to love,
something to hope for.”
― Immanuel Kant

“We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
― Immanuel Kant

“We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”
― Immanuel Kant

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ”
― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

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

“Look closely. The beautiful may be small.”
― Immanuel Kant

“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, Critique of Pure Reason

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

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

“Dare to think! ”
― Immanuel Kant

“I had to suspend knowledge, in order to make room for faith.”
― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason

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

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

“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, Critique of Pure Reason

“To Be is To Do.”
― Immanuel Kant

“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence."
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― Immanuel Kant

“Two things inspire me to awe: the starry heavens above and the moral universe within.”
― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

“Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
"Foundations of the Metaphysics of
Morals" (1785)”
― Immanuel 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.”
― Immanuel Kant

“The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.”
― Immanuel Kant

“Seek not the favor of the multitude... But seek the testimony of the few; and number not the voices, but weigh them.”
― Immanuel Kant

“Dare to know.”
― Immanuel Kant

“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

“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another. Sapere Aude! “Have courage to use your own understanding!”–that is the motto of enlightenment.”
― Immanuel Kant

“But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.”
― Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

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

“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealins with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
― Immanuel Kant

“Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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― Immanuel Kant

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

“Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience.”
― Immanuel Kant

“Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.”
― Immanuel Kant

“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence the more often and more steadily one reflects on them, the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”
― Immanuel Kant

“sapere aude.”
― Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

“We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.”
― Immanuel Kant

“Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.”
― Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

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

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

“From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.”
― Immanuel Kant

“Sapere Aude!”
― Immanuel Kant

“Toute intuition sans concept n'aboutit pas
Tout concept sans intuition est vide”
― Immanuel Kant

“The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it could do even better in airless space. Likewise, Plato abandoned the world of the senses because it posed so many hindrances for the understanding, and dared to go beyond it on the wings of the ideas, in the empty space of pure understanding.”
― Immanuel Kant, Critique Of Pure Reason

“Marriage...is the union of two people of different sexes with a view to the mutual possession of each other's sexual attributes for the duration of their lives.”
― Immanuel Kant

“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was even made.”
― Immanuel Kant

“Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.”
― Immanuel Kant

“Sesuatu untuk dikerjakan, seseorang untuk dicintai, sesuatu untuk diharapkan.
Itulah kebahagiaan.”
― Immanuel Kant

“Faulheit und Feigheit sind die Ursachen, warum ein so großer Teil der Menschen, nachdem sie die Natur längst von fremder Leitung frei gesprochen, dennoch gerne zeitlebens unmündig bleiben; und warum es anderen so leicht wird, sich zu deren Vormündern aufzuwerfen.”
― Immanuel Kant, Was ist Aufklärung? Ausgewählte kleine Schriften

“Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”
― Immanuel Kant

“In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.”
― Immanuel Kant

“An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.”
― Immanuel Kant

“From the crooked timber of humanity, never was a straight thing made.”
― Immanuel Kant