Immanuel Kant quotes

Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher and one of the central figures of modern philosophy. His works fundamentally shaped ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics through concepts such as the categorical imperative. He inspired generations of thinkers and profoundly influenced both philosophy and other fields. Here are 250 of his quotes:

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. (Immanuel Kant)
Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not everything. View quote
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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. View quote
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. View quote
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. View quote
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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. View quote
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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. View quote
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I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief. View quote
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. View quote
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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.' View quote
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The death of dogma is the birth of reality. (Immanuel Kant)
Have patience awhile slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time ere long she shall appear to vindicate thee. View quote
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. View quote
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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. View quote
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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? View quote
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There is ... but one categorical imperative Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law. View quote
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. View quote
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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without. View quote
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The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never. View quote
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. View quote
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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. (Immanuel Kant)
Human reason is by nature architectonic. View quote
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Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer. View quote
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The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted. View quote
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The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason. View quote
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Immanuel Kant

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Occupation: German Philosopher
Born: April 22, 1724
Died: February 12, 1804
Quotes count: 250
Wikipedia: Immanuel Kant

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