God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“...[P]hysics... [is] the philosophy of nature, so far as it is based on empirical laws.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“act as if the maxim of your action were to become by your will a general law of nature.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“As nature has uncovered from under this hard shell the seed for which she most tenderly cares - the propensity and vocation… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“[To think for oneself] is the maxim of a reason never passive. The tendency to such passivity, and therefore to heteronomy of… — 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
We ourselves introduce that order and regularity in the appearance which we entitle "nature". We could never find them in appearances had… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise… — 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
“Here then we see philosophy brought to a critical position, since it has to be firmly fixed, notwithstanding that it has nothing… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. — 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
“If the intuition must conform to the nature of the objects, I do not see how we can know anything of them… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence… — 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
The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a… — 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
