Immanuel Kant Quotes

• Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

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

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• Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

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

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

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

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• Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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• 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.

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

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

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

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• 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.’

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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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