Immanuel Kant (Philosopher)

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 law

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

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

— Immanuel Kant life

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

— Immanuel Kant truth

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law without contradiction.

— Immanuel Kant time

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

— Immanuel Kant rich

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

— Immanuel Kant humanity

What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.

— Immanuel Kant happiness

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 art

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

— Immanuel Kant life

Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually progress from one level of insight to another

— Immanuel Kant work

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

That Logic has advanced in this sure course, even from the earliest times, is apparent from the fact that, since Aristotle, it has been unable to advance a step, and thus to all appearance has reached its completion.

— Immanuel Kant time

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

— Immanuel Kant gratitude

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 man

Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down to his descendants the privileges attached to the rank he occupies in the commonwealth, nor act as if he were qualified as a ruler by birth and forcibly prevent others from reachΩng the higher levels of the hierarchy through their own merit. He may hand down everything else, so long as it is material and not pertaining to his person, for it may be acquired and disposed of as property and may over a series of generations create considerable inequalities in wealth among the mem΢ers of the commonwealt. But he may not prevent his subίrdinates from raising themselves to his own level if they are able and entitled to do so by their talent, industry and good fortune. If this were not so, he would be allowed to practise coercion without himself being subject to coercive counter-measures from others, and would thus be more than their fellow-subject.

— Immanuel Kant self

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild

— Immanuel Kant nature

Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form

— Immanuel Kant men

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

— Immanuel Kant knowledge

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

— Immanuel Kant purpose

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

— Immanuel Kant world

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

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 character

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

— Immanuel Kant man

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

— Immanuel Kant knowledge

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

— Immanuel Kant man

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 war

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

— Immanuel Kant man

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

— Immanuel Kant happiness

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

— Immanuel Kant knowledge

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

— Immanuel Kant self

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe - the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

— Immanuel Kant mind

By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man

— Immanuel Kant man

The nice part about living in a small town is that when you dont know what youre doing, someone else does

— Immanuel Kant art

The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth

— Immanuel Kant life

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

— Immanuel Kant death

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

— Immanuel Kant experience

Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down to his descendants the privileges attached to the rank he occupies in the commonwealth, nor act as if he were qualified as a ruler by birth and forcibly prevent others from reachÂing the higher levels of the hierarchy through their own merit. He may hand down everything else, so long as it is material and not pertaining to his person, for it may be acquired and disposed of as property and may over a series of generations create considerable inequalities in wealth among the memÂbers of the commonwealt. But he may not prevent his subÂordinates from raising themselves to his own level if they are able and entitled to do so by their talent, industry and good fortune. If this were not so, he would be allowed to practise coercion without himself being subject to coercive counter-measures from others, and would thus be more than their fel

— Immanuel Kant self

Immaturity is the incapacity to use ones intelligence without the guidance of another.

— Immanuel Kant intelligence

No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general lawi.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.

— Immanuel Kant happiness

Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness

— Immanuel Kant happiness

Ours is an ageof criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.

— Immanuel Kant religion

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

— Immanuel Kant happiness

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world

— Immanuel Kant world

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