Immanuel Kant Quotes

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

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

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

A lie is a lie, no matter how small.

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

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

To be is to do.

Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing 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.

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.

The only thing I know is that I know nothing.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a universal law of nature.

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

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

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become a universal law.

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

Immanuel Kant Quotes part 2

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means.

Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule.

Existence is not a predicate.

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

An action done from duty derives its moral value, not from the purpose which is to be attained by it, but from the maxim by which it is determined.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Every theory of human nature which is not predicated upon the same theory of sense perception is destined some day to fall.

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

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

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

Do the thing and you will have the power.

Have the courage to use your own understanding.

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

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

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

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.

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

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions:

What can I know?

What ought I to do?

What may I hope?

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

One cannot make a principle out of exceptions.

In the order of ends there must be a first end, an end of ends; not conditioned by any further end, because this would lead to an infinite regression.