Immanuel Kant Quotes

• 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.

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

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

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• Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

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• Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

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

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• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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?

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• To be is to do.

  Immanuel Kant

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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