Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity. — 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
Both love of mankind, and respect for their rights are duties; the former however is only a conditional, the latter an unconditional,… — 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
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
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
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“If man is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practice kindness towards animals, for he who is cruel to animals… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“A man abandoned by himself on a desert island would adorn neither his hut nor his person; nor would he seek for… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Even as to himself, a man cannot pretend to know what he is in himself from the knowledge he has by internal… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Human reason goes forth inexorably to such questions as cannot be answered by any experiential use of reason or principles based on… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end. — 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
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
[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Human reason has the peculiar fate ... that it is burdened with questions that it cannot dismiss ... but which it also cannot answer. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end. — 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
“Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always at… — 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