Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
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 Image
“...We find that the more a cultivated reason applies itself with deliberate purpose to the enjoyment of life and happiness, so much… — 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
In the mere concept of one thing it cannot be found any character of its existence. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“if adversity and hopeless grief have quite taken away the taste for life; if an unfortunate man, strong of soul and more… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
At some future day it will be proved, I cannot say when and where, that the human soul is, while in earth… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced.… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“By this freedom the will of a rational being, as belonging to the sensuous world, recognizes itself to be, like all other… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“In the physical constitution of an organized being, that is, a being adapted suitably to the purposes of life, we assume it… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“A man reduced to despair by a series of misfortunes feels wearied of life, but is still so far in possession of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function.… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced. — 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
