Religion Quotes by Immanuel Kant

The human heart refuses To believe in a universe Without a purpose.

— Immanuel Kant

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

— Immanuel Kant

He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray

— Immanuel Kant

“I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.”

— Immanuel Kant

The two great dividers are religion and LANGUAGE

— Immanuel Kant

Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.

— Immanuel Kant

The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced.

— Immanuel Kant

Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are…

— Immanuel Kant

Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion.

— Immanuel Kant

The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced.…

— Immanuel Kant

Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition…

— Immanuel Kant

If we could see ourselves... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which…

— Immanuel Kant

In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence…

— Immanuel Kant

Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are…

— Immanuel Kant

“...[M]oral instruction, although containing much that is convincing for the reason, ...accomplishes... little... [because] the teachers themselves have not got their own…

— Immanuel Kant

There is needed, no doubt, a body of servants (ministerium) of the invisible church, but not officials (officiales), in other words, teachers…

— Immanuel Kant

“But, above all, it will confer an inestimable benefit on morality and religion, by showing that all the objections urged against them…

— Immanuel Kant

“Our age is the age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation,…

— Immanuel Kant

...as soon as we examine suicide from the standpoint of religion we immediately see it in its true light. We have been…

— Immanuel Kant

“But to unite in a permanent religious institution which is not to be subject to doubt before the public even in the…

— Immanuel Kant

Christianity possesses the great advantage over Judaism of being represented as coming from the mouth of the first Teacher not as a…

— Immanuel Kant

This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function.…

— Immanuel Kant