Immanuel Kant Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.
Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.
A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else's life is simply immoral.
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly.
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
"Foundations of the Metaphysics of
Morals" (1785)
"Foundations of the Metaphysics of
Morals" (1785)
Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility
There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise.
Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.
Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.
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.
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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.
The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience
The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.
It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err - not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all.
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.
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
A learned woman might just as well have a beard, for that expresses in a more recognizable form the profundity for which she strives.
All duties depend as regards the kind of obligation (not the object of their action) upon the one principle.
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.
[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.
Are - and yet refer to something permanent, which must, therefore, be distinct from all my representations and external to me, the existence
...by saying that the former was only concerned with quality, the latter only with quantity, mistook cause for effect.
The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.
Human reason has the peculiar fate ... that it is burdened with questions that it cannot dismiss ... but which it also cannot answer.
What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown
The main point of enlightenment is man's release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour, the more we love them, for we see how great is their care of the young.