[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
We come no nearer the infinitude of the creative power of God, if we enclose the space of its revelation within a… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to… — 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
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because… — 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