Immanuel Kant Quotes


Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose. Immanuel Kant Respect 355
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. Immanuel Kant Ethics 299
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law. Immanuel Kant Life 222
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. Immanuel Kant Dark 206
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands. Immanuel Kant Religion 204
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 Recognition 192
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild. Immanuel Kant Discipline 175
By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man. Immanuel Kant Dignity 174
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. Immanuel Kant Men 162
Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law. Immanuel Kant Action 160
If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on. Immanuel Kant Complain 150
We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. Immanuel Kant Heart 136
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason. Immanuel Kant Reason 125
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. Immanuel Kant Experience 115
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason. Immanuel Kant Power 113
Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to whom he has done good. Immanuel Kant Kindness 106
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. Immanuel Kant Principles 103
Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable. Immanuel Kant Suicide 98
The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs. Immanuel Kant Understanding 97
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved. Immanuel Kant Humanity 96
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. Immanuel Kant Reason 94
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Immanuel Kant Intelligence 91
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. Immanuel Kant Imagination 91
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. Immanuel Kant Happily 89
There is, therefore, only one categorical imperative. It is: Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. Immanuel Kant 89
Always treat people as ends in themselves never as means to an end. Immanuel Kant Respect 88
An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences. Immanuel Kant Goodness 87
Two things fill the heart with renewed and increasing awe and reverence the more often and the more steadily that they are meditated on: the starry skies above me and the moral law inside me. Immanuel Kant Reflection 86
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn. Immanuel Kant Humanity 84
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live. Immanuel Kant Busy 83
Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers. Immanuel Kant Action 82
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience. Immanuel Kant Experience 81
Whereas the beautiful is limited the sublime is limitless so that the mind in the presence of the sublime attempting to imagine what it cannot has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt Immanuel Kant Beautiful 80
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. Immanuel Kant Morals 78
An action to have moral worth must be done from duty. Immanuel Kant Morality 78
By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man. Immanuel Kant DeceptionLying 78
Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. Immanuel Kant Act 77
Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be made. Immanuel Kant Humanity 75
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law. Immanuel Kant Actions 70
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. Immanuel Kant Instinct 69
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? Immanuel Kant Philosophy 69
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it! Immanuel Kant 66
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience. Immanuel Kant Experience 65
Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means but always also as an end. Immanuel Kant Action 65
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. Immanuel Kant Honesty 62
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end. Immanuel Kant End 59
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe — the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. Immanuel Kant Uncategorized 59
Without man and his potential for moral progress the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness a thing in vain and have no final purpose. Immanuel Kant Morality 55
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. Immanuel Kant Thought 54
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. Immanuel Kant Conscience 52

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