“Jeg skal alltid handle slik at den regelen jeg handler etter kunne gjelde som allmenn lov.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good… — 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
Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use of their own reason, and which… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“A good will is good not because of what it performs or effects, not by its aptness for the attainment of some… — 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
“To behold virtue in her proper form is nothing else but to contemplate morality stripped of all admixture of sensible things and… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“...[N]ature generally in the distribution of her capacities has adapted the means to the end... [so nature's] true destination must be to… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“...[T]o be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“The sight of a being who is not adorned with a single feature of a pure and good will, enjoying unbroken prosperity,… — 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