Immanuel Kant

Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an…

— Immanuel Kant

How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

— Immanuel Kant

Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

— Immanuel Kant

Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

— Immanuel Kant

Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.

— Immanuel Kant

Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction…

— Immanuel Kant

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

— Immanuel Kant

When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed…

— Immanuel Kant

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

The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection…

— Immanuel Kant

“Jeg skal alltid handle slik at den regelen jeg handler etter kunne gjelde som allmenn lov.”

— Immanuel Kant

Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be…

— Immanuel Kant

It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

— Immanuel Kant

A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral.

— Immanuel Kant

. . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot…

— Immanuel Kant

I am myself by inclination an investigator.

— Immanuel Kant

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.

— Immanuel Kant

The hand is the visible part of the brain.

— Immanuel Kant

Honesty is better than any policy.

— Immanuel Kant

When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself…

— Immanuel Kant

Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected.

— Immanuel Kant

Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning…

— Immanuel Kant

There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well…

— Immanuel Kant

Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience.

— Immanuel Kant

Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of…

— Immanuel Kant