Quotes by Immanuel Kant

One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.

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.

Law and freedom without violence are incompatible. Violence and law without freedom are also incompatible

Have courage to use your own reason!

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

Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.

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

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

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.

All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

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.

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

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

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.

Act so that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of another, always as an end and never as a means only.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

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

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

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.

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.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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

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

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

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

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

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.

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.

Không có thứ gì thẳng thắn được tạo ra từ khúc gỗ cong của nhân loại.

Lý trí là công cụ mạnh mẽ nhất của chúng ta.

Đọc sách không bằng suy ngẫm. Học trường không hơn được trường đời.

Theo luật pháp, một người có tội khi vi phạm quyền lợi của người khác. Nhưng về mặt đạo đức, mới chỉ nghĩ đến hành động như thế cũng đã là có tội.

Con ruồi chết vì giọt mật. Đàn bà chết vì đàn ông nhiều lời. Đàn ông chết vì vợ đẹp. Cha mẹ thì chết vì con bất hiếu

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