--- title: "28 Ifs Quotes By Immanuel Kant" description: "28 Ifs quotes by Immanuel Kant. Plus more from Immanuel Kant and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13b/immanuel-kant-532_bound_if-i-am-to-constrain-you-by-any-law-it-m_250220.jpg" --- > [If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/if-i-am-to-constrain-you-by-any-law-it-must-be-one-by-which-i-am-also/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13b/immanuel-kant-532_bound_if-i-am-to-constrain-you-by-any-law-it-m_250220.jpg) > [If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/if-justice-perishes-human-life-on-earth-has-lost-its-meaning/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0e/immanuel-kant-532_earth_if-justice-perishes-human-life-on-earth_835993.jpg) > [If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/if-a-man-is-often-the-subject-of-conversation-he-soon-becomes-the/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31d/immanuel-kant-532_communication_if-a-man-is-often-the-subject-of-convers_718508.jpg) > [An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/an-action-is-essentially-good-if-the-motive-of-the-agent-be-good/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ba/immanuel-kant-532_action_an-action-is-essentially-good-if-the-mot_2916722.jpg) > [If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/if-we-knew-that-god-exists-such-knowledge-would-make-morality/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a0/immanuel-kant-532_character_if-we-knew-that-god-exists-such-knowledg_2541721.jpg) > [If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/if-education-is-to-develop-human-nature-so-that-it-may-attain-the/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30d/immanuel-kant-532_education_if-education-is-to-develop-human-nature_1905806.jpg) > [I learned to honor human beings, and I would find myself far more useless than the common laborer if I did not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/i-learned-to-honor-human-beings-and-i-would-find-myself-far-more/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c65/immanuel-kant-532_believe_i-learned-to-honor-human-beings-and-i-wo_1576616.jpg) > [For how is it possible, says that acute man, that when a concept is given me, I can go beyond it and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/for-how-is-it-possible-says-that-acute-man-that-when-a-concept-is/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/327/immanuel-kant-532_concept_for-how-is-it-possible-says-that-acute-m_2686267.jpg) > [\*\*\*Three Conditions of Happiness\*\*\* If you have work to do If you have someone you love If You have hope Then You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/three-conditions-of-happiness-if-you-have-work-to-do-if-you-have/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b0/immanuel-kant-532_conditions_three-conditions-of-happiness-if-you-hav_844486.jpg) > [If we could see ourselves... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/if-we-could-see-ourselves-as-we-really-are-we-should-see-ourselves-in/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e13/immanuel-kant-532_birth_if-we-could-see-ourselves-as-we-really-a_364387.jpg) > [Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/religion-is-too-important-a-matter-to-its-devotees-to-be-a-subject-of/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d92/immanuel-kant-532_absurdity_religion-is-too-important-a-matter-to-it_2600333.jpg) > [Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/time-is-not-an-empirical-concept-for-neither-co-existence-nor/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b96/immanuel-kant-532_clock_time-is-not-an-empirical-concept-for-nei_3125983.jpg) > [Moral Teleology supplies the deficiency in physical Teleology , and first establishes a Theology ; because the latter, if it did not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/moral-teleology-supplies-the-deficiency-in-physical-teleology-and/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/013/immanuel-kant-532_character_moral-teleology-supplies-the-deficiency_2628937.jpg) > [If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/if-you-punish-a-child-for-being-naughty-and-reward-him-for-being-good/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f22/immanuel-kant-532_advantage_if-you-punish-a-child-for-being-naughty_2582727.jpg) > [The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/the-arts-of-speech-are-rhetoric-and-poetry-rhetoric-is-the-art-of/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e20/immanuel-kant-532_art_the-arts-of-speech-are-rhetoric-and-poet_1585340.jpg) > [We come no nearer the infinitude of the creative power of God, if we enclose the space of its revelation within a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/we-come-no-nearer-the-infinitude-of-the-creative-power-of-god-if-we/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7db/immanuel-kant-532_balls_we-come-no-nearer-the-infinitude-of-the_2059304.jpg) > [ A science of all these possible kinds of space \[the higher dimensional ones\] would undoubtedly be the highest enterprise which a finite… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/a-science-of-all-these-possible-kinds-of-space-the-higher-dimensional/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/308/immanuel-kant-532_business_a-science-of-all-these-possible-kinds-of_1337858.jpg) > [This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/this-spirit-of-freedom-is-expanding-even-where-it-must-struggle/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f7d/immanuel-kant-532_artifice_this-spirit-of-freedom-is-expanding-even_2056094.jpg) > [If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/if-an-offender-has-committed-murder-he-must-die-in-this-case-no/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/005/immanuel-kant-532_cases_if-an-offender-has-committed-murder-he-m_1417977.jpg) > [Enlightenment is man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/enlightenment-is-man-s-leaving-his-self-caused-immaturity-immaturity/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f6/immanuel-kant-532_buddhism_enlightenment-is-man-s-leaving-his-self_1531723.jpg) > [The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c2/immanuel-kant-532_causes_the-ideal-of-the-supreme-being-is-nothin_64287.jpg) > [Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/why-were-a-few-or-a-single-one-made-at-all-if-only-to-exist-in-order/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4c/immanuel-kant-532_existence_why-were-a-few-or-a-single-one-made-at-a_846366.jpg) > [Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/enlightenment-is-man-s-emergence-from-his-self-imposed-nonage-nonage-2/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37f/immanuel-kant-532_buddhism_enlightenment-is-man-s-emergence-from-hi_2911338.jpg) > [By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/by-a-lie-a-man-throws-away-and-as-it-were-annihilates-his-dignity-as-2/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ee/immanuel-kant-532_appearance_by-a-lie-a-man-throws-away-and-as-it-wer_941701.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) > [If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/if-like-hume-i-had-all-manner-of-adornment-in-my-power-i-would-still/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b36/immanuel-kant-532_adornment_if-like-hume-i-had-all-manner-of-adornme_2034780.jpg) > [If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/if-it-were-possible-for-us-to-have-so-deep-an-insight-into-a-man-s/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/276/immanuel-kant-532_action_if-it-were-possible-for-us-to-have-so-de_3115521.jpg) > [Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/311/immanuel-kant-532_blood_even-if-a-civil-society-were-to-be-disso_22895.jpg) ## Other authors on Ifs ## 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 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