Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785) — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“The crux of his new philosophy is this: What assurance do we have that our a priori (rational) thoughts have in reality… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Here then we see philosophy brought to a critical position, since it has to be firmly fixed, notwithstanding that it has nothing… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“All rational knowledge is either material, and concerns some objects, or formal, and is occupied only with the form of understanding and… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“We have seen, therefore, that I am not allowed even to *assume*, for the sake of the necessary practical use of my… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“It is clearly the result, not of carelessness but of matured judgement of our age, which will no longer rest satisfied with… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“This experiment succeeds as hoped and promises to metaphysics, in its first part, which deals with those *a priori* concepts to which… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Finer feeling, which we now wish to consider, is chiefly of two kinds: the feeling of the *sublime* and that of the… — 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
