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Immanuel Kant
German
Philosopher
About the author
Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#Action
#World
#Law
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#Law
#Sky
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#Religion
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#Life
#May
#Law
#Actions
#Maxim
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#May
#Morality
#Happiness
#Doctrine
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#Metaphysics
#Ocean
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#Nothing
#Man
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#Life
#Law
#Act
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#Life
#Science
#Knowledge
#Wisdom
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#Action
#World
#Law
The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#Reason
#Evil
To be is to do.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#Hope
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#Content
#Blind
#Thoughts
By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#Dignity
#Man
#Lie
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#Nothing
#Reason
#Understanding
#Knowledge
#Senses
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#Hope
#Reason
#May
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#God
#Will
All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#Thought
#Sensibility
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#Nothing
#Reason
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#Experience
#Knowledge
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#Will
#War
#Evil
#Mankind
#Praise
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#Play
#Experience
#Blind
#Theory
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#Law
#Man
#Rights
#Ethics
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#Experience
#Knowledge
#Doubt
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#End
Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#Ingratitude
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#Nothing
#Man
#Wood
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#Intelligence
#Guidance
If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#Man
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#Belief
#Knowledge
#Order
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#Heart
#Man
#Men
#Treatment
#Animals
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#Reason
#Imagination
#Happiness
Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#Knowledge
#Yield
#Intuition
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
Immanuel Kant,
German
Philosopher
#Action
#Purpose