Immanuel Kant Quotes

• Rules for Happiness:
  something to do,
  someone to love,
  something to hope for.

  Immanuel Kant

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Happiness

• Ours is an age of 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

  Topics in Age, Funny

  Tags in Exemptions, Public

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

  Immanuel Kant

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Action, Principle, World

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

  Immanuel Kant

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Represented, Necessary

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Characters, Sensibility, Intuitions, Thought

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

  Immanuel Kant

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human, Means

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

  Immanuel Kant

  Topics in Experience, Knowledge

  Tags in Follow

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

  Immanuel Kant

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dignity, 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mankind, Evil, Praise

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

  Immanuel Kant

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Experienced, Play, Intellectual

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

  Immanuel Kant

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Crooked, Nothing

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

  Immanuel Kant

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness, Reason

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

  Immanuel Kant

  Topics in Belief, Knowledge

  Tags in Remove, 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Judge, Heart, Treatment

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

  Immanuel Kant

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Complain, Himself

• Immaturity is the incapacity to use one’s intelligence without the guidance of another.

  Immanuel Kant

  Topics in Intelligence

  Tags in Guidance, Incapacity

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Guilty, Violates, Thinks

• Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

  Immanuel Kant

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ingratitude, Essence

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

  Immanuel Kant

  Topics in Experience, Knowledge

  Tags in Doubt, Begin

• It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

  Immanuel Kant

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happy, Ourselves

Immanuel Kant (55)

Birth:	22nd April, 1724
Death:	12th February, 1804
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Philosopher

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Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher who is widely considered to be a central figure of modern philosophy. He argued that fundamental concepts structure human experience, and that reason is the source of morality. His thought continues to have a major influence in contemporary thought, especially the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, and aesthetics.

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