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
An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Everything goes past like a river and the changing taste and the various shapes of men make the whole game uncertain and… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“A good will is good not because of what it effects, or accomplishes, not because of its fitness to attain some intended… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole? — 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
The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It… — 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
“(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless striving for such a path, as… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“[A man], who is in prosperity, while he sees that others have to contend with great wretchedness and that he could help… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old procedure of metaphysics, and to… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Mathematics, natural science, laws, arts, even morality, etc. do not completely fill the soul; there is always a space left over reserved… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“[At the beginning of modern science], a light dawned on all those who study nature. They comprehended that reason has insight only… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as… — 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
