Quotes by Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant

German philosopher

Alive from: 1724-1804

Category: Philosophers

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  Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

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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?

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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.

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  By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man.

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

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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.

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

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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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  Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

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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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  Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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

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  Two things fill me with constantly increasing admiration and awe, the longer and more earnestly I reflect on them: the starry heavens without and the moral law within.