Immanuel Kant Quotes

The possession of power unavoidably spoils the free use of reason.

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The death of dogma is the birth of reality.

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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

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If man is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practise kindness towards animals, for 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.

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Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

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

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The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.

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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

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

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.

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

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

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But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts of useful utensils, and so on, any regularity that has an air of constraint is to be avoided as much as possible. That is why the English taste in gardens, or the baroque taste in furniture, carries the imagination's freedom very far, even to the verge of the grotesque, because it is precisely this divorce from any constraint of a rule that the case is posited where taste can show its greatest perfection in designs made by the imagination.

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I ought, therefore I can.

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To be beneficent when we can is a duty and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations.... For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.

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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.

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Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law.

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Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe - the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.

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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.

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

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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.

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... as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws and besides, feelings which naturally differ infinitely in degree cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has any one a right to form judgments for others by his own feelings....

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