When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
In the mere concept of one thing it cannot be found any character of its existence. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
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
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. — 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
“But, above all, it will confer an inestimable benefit on morality and religion, by showing that all the objections urged against them… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“By this freedom the will of a rational being, as belonging to the sensuous world, recognizes itself to be, like all other… — 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
Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition… — 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
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
“To behold virtue in her proper form is nothing else but to contemplate morality stripped of all admixture of sensible things and… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“The principle of private happiness, however, is the most objectionable, not merely because it is false, and experience contradicts the supposition that… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“...[T]o be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly… — 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 Image
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Jeg skal alltid handle slik at den regelen jeg handler etter kunne gjelde som allmenn lov.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
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 Image
