There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well… — 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
Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I feel a complete thirst for knowledge and an eager unrest to go further in it as well as satisfaction at every… — 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
Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as… — 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
