Immanuel Kant

“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more seriously reflection concentrates…

— Immanuel Kant

“...Act upon a maxim which, at the same time, involves its own universal validity for every rational being.”

— Immanuel Kant

“Denken zonder ervaring is leeg, maar ervaring zonder denken is blind.”

— Immanuel Kant

The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation.…

— Immanuel Kant

“My object is to persuade all those who think metaphysics worth studying that it is absolutely necessary to pause a moment and,…

— Immanuel Kant

An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.

— Immanuel Kant

“Dare to think!”

— Immanuel Kant

“...new prejudices will serve as well as old ones to harness the great unthinking masses. For this enlightenment, however, nothing is required…

— Immanuel Kant

“What does it avail, one will say, that this man has so much talent, that he is so active therewith, and that…

— Immanuel Kant

Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some…

— Immanuel Kant

Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and…

— Immanuel Kant

“One age cannot bind itself, and thus conspire, to place a succeeding one in a condition whereby it would be impossible for…

— Immanuel Kant

The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.

— Immanuel Kant

There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill…

— Immanuel Kant

“Everything goes past like a river and the changing taste and the various shapes of men make the whole game uncertain and…

— Immanuel Kant

If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.

— Immanuel Kant

One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

— Immanuel Kant

Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

— Immanuel Kant

Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who…

— Immanuel Kant

“...We find that the more a cultivated reason applies itself with deliberate purpose to the enjoyment of life and happiness, so much…

— Immanuel Kant

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

“Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.”

— Immanuel Kant

“A good will is good not because of what it effects, or accomplishes, not because of its fitness to attain some intended…

— Immanuel Kant

Men will not understand … that when they fulfil their duties to men, they fulfil thereby God's commandments; that they are consequently…

— Immanuel Kant

What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?

— Immanuel Kant