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
Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. — 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
But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
In the metaphysical elements of aesthetics the various nonmoral feelings are to be made use of; in the elements of moral metaphysics… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. Her giving to man… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law. — 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