Immanuel Kant Quotes
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With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.
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Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a pupil who listens to everything that the teacher chooses to say, but of an appointed judge who compels the witness to answer questions which he has himself formulated.
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Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.
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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
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Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.
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If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.
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Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner than however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to its present conditions. But they ought to give them an education so much better than this, that a better condition of things may thereby be brought about by the future.
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Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.
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The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
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By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another ... has even less worth than if he were a mere thing. ... makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself.
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We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.
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An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.
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Notion without intuition is empty, intuition without notion is blind.
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Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent.
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The two great dividers are religion and LANGUAGE.
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Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.
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If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness.
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I learned to honor human beings, and I would find myself far more useless than the common laborer if I did not believe that this consideration could impart to all others a value establishing the rights of humanity.
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So act that anything you do may become universal law.
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There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.
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Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.
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We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.