Immanuel Kant

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

— Immanuel Kant

Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard.

— Immanuel Kant

Look closely. The beautiful may be small.

— Immanuel Kant

“I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.”

— Immanuel Kant

The only thing permanent is change.

— Immanuel Kant

Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done

— Immanuel Kant

“Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.”

— Immanuel Kant

Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.

— Immanuel Kant

“If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.”

— Immanuel Kant

Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.

— Immanuel Kant

God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into…

— Immanuel Kant

Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.

— Immanuel Kant

Let us live our lives as if the maxim of our actions were to become a universal law for the whole world.

— Immanuel Kant

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

— Immanuel Kant

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

— Immanuel Kant

“Dwell with yourself, and you will know how short your household stuff is.”

— Immanuel Kant

The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science…

— Immanuel Kant

At some future day it will be proved, I cannot say when and where, that the human soul is, while in earth…

— Immanuel Kant

The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part…

— Immanuel Kant

Natural science physics contains in itself synthetical judgments a priori, as principles. ... Space then is a necessary representation a priori, which…

— Immanuel Kant

The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation.…

— Immanuel Kant

[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in…

— Immanuel Kant

“When the tremulous radiance of a summer night fills with twinkling stars and the moon itself is full, I am slowly drawn…

— Immanuel Kant

Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.

— Immanuel Kant

“It is in these very items of knowledge which go beyond the world of senses, where experience can neither guide nor correct…

— Immanuel Kant

“In the physical constitution of an organized being, that is, a being adapted suitably to the purposes of life, we assume it…

— Immanuel Kant

If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is…

— Immanuel Kant

“All trades, arts, and handiwork have gained by division of labor, namely, when, instead of one man doing everything, each confines himself…

— Immanuel Kant

“The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old procedure of metaphysics, and to…

— Immanuel Kant

If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and…

— Immanuel Kant

...as soon as we examine suicide from the standpoint of religion we immediately see it in its true light. We have been…

— Immanuel Kant

“...[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

Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.

— Immanuel Kant

Do the right thing because it is right.

— Immanuel Kant

Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.

— Immanuel Kant

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

— Immanuel Kant

Reason can never prove the existence of God.

— Immanuel Kant

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

— Immanuel Kant

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

— Immanuel Kant

Honesty is better than any policy.

— Immanuel Kant