To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge. — 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
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