--- title: "3 Guardian Quotes By Immanuel Kant" description: "3 Guardian quotes by Immanuel Kant. Plus more from Immanuel Kant and more Guardian sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/616/immanuel-kant-532_aliens_through-laziness-and-cowardice-a-large-p_534193.jpg" --- > [Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/through-laziness-and-cowardice-a-large-part-of-mankind-even-after/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/616/immanuel-kant-532_aliens_through-laziness-and-cowardice-a-large-p_534193.jpg) > [Laziness and cowardice explain why so many men. . . remain under a life-long tutelage and why it is so easy for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/laziness-and-cowardice-explain-why-so-many-men-remain-under-a-life/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/025/immanuel-kant-532_book_laziness-and-cowardice-explain-why-so-ma_2349855.jpg) > [There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/there-will-always-be-some-people-who-think-for-themselves-even-among/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/734/immanuel-kant-532_every-man_there-will-always-be-some-people-who-thi_2758446.jpg) ## Other authors on Guardian - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-amber-hope-12202.jpg) Amber Hope 47 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/guardian/amber-hope/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-richelle-mead-78985.jpg) Richelle Mead 27 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/guardian/richelle-mead/) - [Wendy Owens 18 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/guardian/wendy-owens/) - [Katharine Viner 8 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/guardian/katharine-viner/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-amber-hope-guardian-48719.jpg) Amber Hope(Guardian 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/guardian/amber-hope-guardian/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-jefferson-90435.jpg) Thomas Jefferson 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/guardian/thomas-jefferson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-plato-75782.jpg) Plato 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/guardian/plato/) - [Michael Wolff 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/guardian/michael-wolff/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b012/author-james-madison-46533.jpg) James Madison 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/guardian/james-madison/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-doreen-virtue-30199.jpg) Doreen Virtue 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/guardian/doreen-virtue/) ## More by Immanuel Kant > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/even-if-a-civil-society-were-to-be-dissolved-by-the-consent-of-all/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) > [How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/how-then-is-perfection-to-be-sought-wherein-lies-our-hope-in/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) > [Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/heaven-has-given-human-beings-three-things-to-balance-the-odds-of/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) > [Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/beauty-presents-an-indeterminate-concept-of-understanding-the-sublime/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) > [Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/freedom-is-that-faculty-that-enlarges-the-usefulness-of-all-other/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) > [Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/philosophical-knowledge-is-the-knowledge-gained-by-reason-from/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) > [A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/a-categorical-imperative-would-be-one-which-represented-an-action-as/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) > [When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/when-i-could-have-used-a-wife-i-could-not-support-one-and-when-i/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/enlightenment-is-the-liberation-of-man-from-his-self-caused-state-of/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) > [The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/the-ideal-of-the-supreme-being-is-nothing-but-a-regulative-principle/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) > [“Jeg skal alltid handle slik at den regelen jeg handler etter kunne gjelde som allmenn lov.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/jeg-skal-alltid-handle-slik-at-den-regelen-jeg-handler-etter-kunne/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) > [Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/deaths-births-and-marriages-considering-how-much-they-are-separately/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) > [It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/it-is-precisely-in-knowing-its-limits-that-philosophy-consists/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) > [A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/a-society-that-is-not-willing-to-demand-a-life-of-somebody-who-has/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) > [. . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/as-to-moral-feeling-this-supposed-special-sense-the-appeal-to-it-is/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/guardian/immanuel-kant/#itemlist", "name": "3 Guardian Quotes By Immanuel Kant", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It is because of laziness and cowardice that it is so easy for others to usurp the role of guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor!", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Immanuel Kant" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/through-laziness-and-cowardice-a-large-part-of-mankind-even-after/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/616/immanuel-kant-532_aliens_through-laziness-and-cowardice-a-large-p_534193.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/616/immanuel-kant-532_aliens_through-laziness-and-cowardice-a-large-p_534193.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/616/immanuel-kant-532_aliens_through-laziness-and-cowardice-a-large-p_534193.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien…” — Immanuel Kant", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Laziness and cowardice explain why so many men. . . remain under a life-long tutelage and why it is so easy for some men to set themselves up as the guardians of all the rest. . . If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a doctor who decides my diet, I need not trouble myself. If I am willing to pay, I need not think. Others will do it for me.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Immanuel Kant" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/laziness-and-cowardice-explain-why-so-many-men-remain-under-a-life/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/025/immanuel-kant-532_book_laziness-and-cowardice-explain-why-so-ma_2349855.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/025/immanuel-kant-532_book_laziness-and-cowardice-explain-why-so-ma_2349855.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/025/immanuel-kant-532_book_laziness-and-cowardice-explain-why-so-ma_2349855.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Laziness and cowardice explain why so many men. . . remain under a life-long tutelage and why it is so easy…” — Immanuel Kant", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Immanuel Kant" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/there-will-always-be-some-people-who-think-for-themselves-even-among/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/734/immanuel-kant-532_every-man_there-will-always-be-some-people-who-thi_2758446.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/734/immanuel-kant-532_every-man_there-will-always-be-some-people-who-thi_2758446.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/734/immanuel-kant-532_every-man_there-will-always-be-some-people-who-thi_2758446.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the…” — Immanuel Kant", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/guardian/immanuel-kant/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/guardian/immanuel-kant/", "name": "Guardian Quotes by Immanuel Kant", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/guardian/immanuel-kant/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/616/immanuel-kant-532_aliens_through-laziness-and-cowardice-a-large-p_534193.jpg" }, "description": "3 Guardian quotes by Immanuel Kant. Plus more from Immanuel Kant and more Guardian sayings from other authors.", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/guardian/immanuel-kant/#breadcrumb" } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/guardian/immanuel-kant/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Topics", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Guardian", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/guardian/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "name": "Immanuel Kant", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/guardian/immanuel-kant/" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```