Moral Teleology supplies the deficiency in physical Teleology , and first establishes a Theology ; because the latter, if it did not… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Imitation finds no place at all in morality, and examples serve only for encouragement, that is, they put beyond doubt the feasibility… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish. — 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
“...I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become universal law.” — 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
“Would it not therefore be wiser in moral concerns to acquiesce in the judgement of common reason, or at most only to… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
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 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
