76 result(s) for Immanuel Kant Quotes.
"We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without."
"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."
"All perception is an apperception."
"Look closely. The beautiful may be small."
"Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."
"Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end."
"Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will."
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"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved."
"Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another."
"Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."
"Live your life as if reason is the ruler and guide of it."
"All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas."
"Time was when she did not exist, and presently she ceases to be. So what has a beginning and an end must be a phenomenon, not an absolute substance."
"Ingratitude is the essence of vileness."
"So act as to treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as a means only."
"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."
"There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience."
"Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law."
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity."
"All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas."
"Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as mere means to your ends."
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"Every man has the right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has the right to knock him down for it."
"A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose."
"What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?"
"The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil."
"Have the courage to use your own understanding!"
"Only two things can satisfy the soul: a person and good deeds."
"Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."
"Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination."
"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."
"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?"
"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."
"We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us."
"The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life."
"By a lie, a man annihilates his dignity as a man."
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"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."
"I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith."
"I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief."
"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."
"An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty."
"Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination."
"Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!"
"It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience."
"It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy."
"Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."
"From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned."
"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason."
"Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me."
"Have the courage to make use of your own understanding!"
"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."
"All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us."
"Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason."
"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
"A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as necessary of itself without any reference to another end."
"I had to deny knowledge to make room for faith."
"Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge."
"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law."
"Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for."
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
"Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."
"Even if one lacks an understanding of the world, one must at least understand the nature of morality."
"Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition nor intuition without concepts can yield knowledge."
"To be is to do."
"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made, nothing entirely straight can be carved."
"Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law."
"Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art. And Art a parasite because it looks like Nature."
"So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world."
"Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence."
"Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play."
"Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end."
"Evil is the lust of the autonomous... reason."
"Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."
"The only thing that can be called good, without qualification, is a good will."
"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason."
"By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man."
"Experience is the teacher of all things."
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