Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“I class the principle of moral feeling under that of happiness, because every empirical interest promises to contribute to our well-being by… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“...[T]here is no art in being intelligible if one renounces all thoroughness of insight; but also it produces a disgusting medley of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“As nature has uncovered from under this hard shell the seed for which she most tenderly cares - the propensity and vocation… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“One cannot be given too many or too frequent warnings against this negligent or even base way of thinking, that seeks out… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“[A man] finds himself forced by necessity to borrow money. He knows that he will not be able to repay it, but… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“[A man], who is in prosperity, while he sees that others have to contend with great wretchedness and that he could help… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share
Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share
Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share
When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any — Immanuel Kant Copy Share
Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share
The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share
“Jeg skal alltid handle slik at den regelen jeg handler etter kunne gjelde som allmenn lov.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share
Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share
A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share
. . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share
![“...[T]here is no art in being intelligible if one renounces all thoroughness of insight; but also it produces a disgusting medley of compiled observations and half-reasoned principles. Shallow pates enjoy this because it can be used for everyday chat, but the sagacious find in it only confusion…” quote by Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/718/immanuel-kant-532_absolute-truth_t-here-is-no-art-in-being-intelligible-i_1079114.jpg)
![“[A man] finds himself forced by necessity to borrow money. He knows that he will not be able to repay it, but sees also that nothing will be lent to him unless he promises stoutly to repay it in definite time. He desires to make this promise, but he has still so much conscience as to ask himself…” quote by Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3e9/immanuel-kant-532_debt_a-man-finds-himself-forced-by-necessity_2853471.jpg)
![“[A man], who is in prosperity, while he sees that others have to contend with great wretchedness and that he could help them, thinks: What concern is it of mine? Let everyone be as happy as Heaven pleases, or as he can make himself; I will take nothing from him nor even envy him, only I do not…” quote by Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8b0/immanuel-kant-532_alms_a-man-who-is-in-prosperity-while-he-sees_828841.jpg)
