When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of… — 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
Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“To behold virtue in her proper form is nothing else but to contemplate morality stripped of all admixture of sensible things and… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“...I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become universal law.” — 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
