Immanuel Kant Quotes
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 me and the moral law within me.
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.
A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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.
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
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.
THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.
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.
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
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.
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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.
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences.
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.
