Immanuel Kant Quotes

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

Men, Judge, Heart

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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant

Law, Two, Moral

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Immanuel Kant

Another, Immaturity, Guidance

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
Immanuel Kant

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

Law, Others, Guilty

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel Kant

Knowledge, Nothing, Reason

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant

Happiness, Happy, May

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
Immanuel Kant

End, Human, Means

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel Kant

Experience, Play, Blind

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

Honest, Means, Few

To be is to do.
Immanuel Kant

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel Kant

Imagination, Happiness, Reason

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant

Life, Knowledge, Science

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel Kant

Happiness, God, Happy

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

Hope, May, Reason

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Immanuel Kant

Law, Made, Whole

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Immanuel Kant

Life, Live, Law

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
Immanuel Kant

Makes, Himself, Complain

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Immanuel Kant

Knowledge, Order, Belief

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
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

Purpose, Action, Necessary

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

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.
Immanuel Kant

Experience, Knowledge, Doubt

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
Immanuel Kant

Nothing, Made, Straight

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

Knowledge, Intuition, Nor

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Philosopher

Born: April 22, 1724

Died: February 12, 1804

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