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Lithuanian nation must be saved, as it is the key to all the riddles - not only philology, but also in history - to solve the puzzle.
— Immanuel Kant
Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease
— Immanuel Kant
A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else's life is simply immoral.
— Immanuel Kant
All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.
— Immanuel Kant
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
— Immanuel Kant
But still, how could they write whole libraries about someone like Kant and hardly even notice Taylor-that prophet who could see ten centuries ahead?
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
Kant's position is extremely subtle - so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it is.
— Roger Scruton
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
— Immanuel Kant
All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.
— Jose Clemente Orozco
...Act upon a maxim which, at the same time, involves its own universal validity for every rational being.
— Immanuel Kant
I just wanted to go home. Take a quick bath, have a beer, and sink into my warm bed with my cigarettes and Kant.
— Haruki Murakami
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. Immanuel Kant
— Immanuel Kant
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
— Immanuel Kant
Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.
— Immanuel Kant
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
— Immanuel Kant
Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
— Immanuel Kant
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment."Foundations of the Metaphysics of
Morals" (1785) — Immanuel Kant
We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.
— African Spir
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
— Immanuel Kant
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
— Immanuel Kant
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
— Immanuel Kant
All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
— Immanuel Kant
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
— Immanuel Kant
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.
— Immanuel Kant
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
— Karl Kraus
Are - and yet refer to something permanent, which must, therefore, be distinct from all my representations and external to me, the existence
— Immanuel Kant
An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.
— Immanuel Kant
Maximum individuality within maximum community
— Immanuel Kant
***Three Conditions of Happiness*** If you have work to do If you have someone you love If You have hope Then You are Happy now!
— Immanuel Kant
...whose true object is to shed the clearest light on every step which reason takes.
— Immanuel Kant
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
— Immanuel Kant
Nothing happens by blind chance.
— Immanuel Kant
It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.
— Immanuel Kant
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
— Immanuel Kant
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[R]eason is ... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will ...
— Immanuel Kant
Human reason has the peculiar fate ... that it is burdened with questions that it cannot dismiss ... but which it also cannot answer.
— Immanuel Kant
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
— Immanuel Kant
All perception is colored by emotion.
— Immanuel Kant
I'm a total bookworm, too. I figure, why do I need a guy in my bed when I can just fall asleep with my Kindle?
— Komal Kant
...by saying that the former was only concerned with quality, the latter only with quantity, mistook cause for effect.
— Immanuel Kant
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
— Immanuel Kant
Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.
— Frederick Busch
A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.
— Immanuel Kant
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild..
— Immanuel Kant
All duties depend as regards the kind of obligation (not the object of their action) upon the one principle.
— Immanuel Kant
Man's duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself.
— Immanuel Kant
To question reason is to trust it.
— Mitch Stokes
Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never spent much time in Washington.
— Elliott Abrams
The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part of the American people.
— Immanuel Kant
Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.
— W. Somerset Maugham
It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err - not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all.
— Immanuel Kant
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
— Immanuel Kant
Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.
— Immanuel Kant
Maturity is having the courage to use one's own intelligence!
— Immanuel Kant
Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification.
— Immanuel Kant
Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.
— Immanuel Kant
I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
— Immanuel Kant
Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
— Immanuel Kant
The former morality, namely Kant's, demanded of the individual actions which one desired of all men: that was a very naive thing;
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
— Immanuel Kant
No one can be compelled by law to be beneficent (though he may be taxed and this money then distributed in welfare payments),
— Immanuel Kant
You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am
— Immanuel Kant
Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard.
— Immanuel Kant
So act that anything you do may become universal law.
— Immanuel Kant
Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.
— Immanuel Kant
Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
— Immanuel Kant
It is through education that all the good in the world arises.
— Immanuel Kant
The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.
— Immanuel Kant
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
— Immanuel Kant
The only thing permanent is change.
— Immanuel Kant
Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.
— Immanuel Kant
