Quotes of Immanuel Kant - somelinesforyou

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

- Immanuel Kant

“ Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ”

- Immanuel Kant

“ Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ”

- Immanuel Kant

“ Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law. ”

- Immanuel Kant

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

- Immanuel Kant

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

- Immanuel Kant

“ Perpetual peace is only found in the graveyard. ”

- Immanuel Kant

“ Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another. ”

- Immanuel Kant

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

- Immanuel Kant

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

- Immanuel Kant

“ Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt. ”

- Immanuel Kant

“ Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. ”

- Immanuel Kant

“ Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end. ”

- Immanuel Kant

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

- Immanuel Kant

“ I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith. ”

- Immanuel Kant

“ 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

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

- Immanuel Kant

“ Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ”

- Immanuel Kant

“ Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ”

- Immanuel Kant

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

- Immanuel Kant

“ Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. ”

- Immanuel Kant

“ Two things fill the mind with everincreasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. ”

- Immanuel Kant

“ Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. ”

- Immanuel Kant

“ Enlightenment is man's release from his selfincurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Selfincurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! 'Have courage to use your own reason!' that is the motto of enlightenment. ”

- Immanuel Kant

“ An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at best very occasional) knowledge , purify itself of errors, and progress in general enlightenment. That would be a crime against human nature, the proper destination of which lies precisely in this progress and the descendants would be fully justified in rejecting those decrees as having been made in an unwarranted and malicious manner. The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself. ”

- Immanuel Kant

“ Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. ”

- Immanuel Kant

“ Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. ”

- Immanuel Kant

“ Skepticism is thus a restingplace for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings and make survey of the region in which it finds itself, so that for the future it may be able to choose its path with more certainty. But it is no dwellingplace for permanent settlement. Such can be obtained only through perfect certainty in our knowledge, alike of the objects themselves and of the limits within which all our knowledge of objects is enclosed. ”

- Immanuel Kant

“ But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows. ”

- Immanuel Kant

“ The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? (Critique of Pure Reason ”

- Immanuel Kant
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