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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Written by Immanuel Kant
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Written by Immanuel Kant
To be is to do.
Written by Immanuel Kant
If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
Written by Immanuel Kant
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Written by Immanuel Kant
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
Written by Immanuel Kant
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Written by Immanuel Kant
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
Written by Immanuel Kant
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.
Written by Immanuel Kant
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.
Written by Immanuel Kant
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Written by Immanuel Kant
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Written by Immanuel Kant
By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
Written by Immanuel Kant
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
Written by Immanuel Kant
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
Written by Immanuel Kant
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.
Written by Immanuel Kant
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Written by Immanuel Kant
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Written by Immanuel Kant
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?
Written by Immanuel Kant
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Written by Immanuel Kant
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.
Written by Immanuel Kant
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.
Written by Immanuel Kant
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Written by Immanuel Kant
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
Written by Immanuel Kant
Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Written by Immanuel Kant
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Written by Immanuel Kant
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.'
Written by Immanuel Kant
Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
Written by Immanuel Kant
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.
Written by Immanuel Kant
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
Written by Immanuel Kant

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