All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
If we could see ourselves... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Always regard every man as an end in himself, and never use him merely as a means to your ends [i.e., respect… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. Whatever has a price can be replaced by something… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Since in early youth it cannot be known what ends are likely to occur to us in the course of life, parents… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end. — 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
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
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