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"30 Immanuel Kant Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 22 April 1724. Died: 12 February 1804 | Philosopher |

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

Begin Sense Reason Knowledge
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By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

Lie Man Annihilate Dignity
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Nothing Divine Agreeable Reason
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Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

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

Principle Action Made Law
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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Live Life Act Universal
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination

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

Imperative Represented Objectively Necessary
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Commands Divine Duties Our
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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.

Also Animals Becomes Cruel
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Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
Essence Of Vileness Ingratitude
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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.'

Bad Begets Even Evil
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Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Carved Crooked Entirely Made
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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.

Because Certain Characters Directly
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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.

Favor Few Got Honest
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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?

Combine Following Hope Interests
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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.

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

Crooked Made Man Nothing
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Although Arises Begins Does
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Blind Concepts Content Empty
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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Above Awe Law Me
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

Another Guidance Immaturity Incapacity
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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.

Doctrine Happiness Happy How
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Be Happy God Happy Make
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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.

Doing Ethics Guilty He
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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.

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

Actions Become Law Life
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

Complain He Himself Makes
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Dark Lighthouse Many Metaphysics
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Happiness Ideal Imagination Reason
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Immanuel Kant Quotes & Sayings