Character Quote by 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 island decided…

— 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 of concepts.

— 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 any

— 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 motto of…

— Immanuel Kant

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

“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 subject to…

— Immanuel Kant