Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Always regard every man as an end in himself, and never use him merely as a means to your ends [i.e., respect… — 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
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785) — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
In the metaphysical elements of aesthetics the various nonmoral feelings are to be made use of; in the elements of moral metaphysics… — 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
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity...No thing is required for this enlightenment.. .except freedom; and the freedom in question is… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity… — 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
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs… — 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
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are… — 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
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