Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and… — 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
Men will not understand … that when they fulfil their duties to men, they fulfil thereby God's commandments; that they are consequently… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not everything — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must… — 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
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
By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone… — 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