Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
. . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“...Reason should take on anew the most difficult of all its tasks, namely, that of self-knowledge, and to institute a court of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“The will is conceived as a faculty of determining oneself to action in accordance with the conception of certain laws. And such… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“It must be freely admitted that there is a sort of circle here from which it seems impossible to escape. In the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them:… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“act as if the maxim of your action were to become by your will a general law of nature.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law without… — 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
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“...[W]e must admit that... law must be valid, not merely for men, but for all rational creatures generally, not merely under certain… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Let us live our lives as if the maxim of our actions were to become a universal law for the whole world. — 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
