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
Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos. — 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
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
Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order. — 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
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition… — 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
This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function.… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief. — 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
