Immanuel Kant quotes - page 8

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. (Immanuel Kant)
Marriage...is the union of two people of different sexes with a view to the mutual possession of each other's sexual attributes for the duration of their lives.
Immanuel Kant
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel Kant
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
Immanuel Kant
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Immanuel Kant
I ask myself only: can you also will that your maxim become a universal law?
Immanuel Kant
The master is himself an animal, and needs a master.
Immanuel Kant
I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge and an impatient eagerness to advance, also satisfaction at each progressive step.
Immanuel Kant
A plant, an animal, the regular order of nature - probably also the disposition of the whole universe - give manifest evidence that they are possible only by means of and according to ideas.
Immanuel Kant
When I treat a man contemptuously, I can inspire him with no practical desire to appreciate my grounds of truth. When I treat any one as worthless, I can inspire him with no desire to do right.
Immanuel Kant
I see them before me and connect them directly with the consciousness of my existence. The former begins from the place I occupy in the external world of sense, and enlarges my connection therein to an unbounded extent with worlds upon worlds and systems of systems, and moreover into limitless times of their periodic motion, its beginning and continuance. The second begins from my invisible self, my personality, and exhibits me in a world which has true infinity, but which is traceable only by the understanding, and with which I discern that I am not in a merely contingent but in a universal and necessary connection, as I am also thereby with all those visible worlds. (Immanuel Kant)
The humiliating difference between laymen and clergymen must disappear, and equality spring from true liberty.
Immanuel Kant
It is much more natural and reasonable to assume that a nebula is not a unique and solitary sun, but a system of numerous suns.
Immanuel Kant
All that is required for this enlightenment is freedom; and particularly the least harmful of all that may be called freedom, namely, the freedom for man to make public use of his reason in all matters.
Immanuel Kant
He must not be obliged to dissimulate, he must acquire immediate horror of lies, must learn so to respect the rights of men that they become an insurmountable wall for him.
Immanuel Kant
The child must be brought up free (that he allow others to be free).
Immanuel Kant
Whatever concept one may hold, from a metaphysical point of view, concerning the freedom of the will, certainly its appearances, which are human actions, like every other natural event are determined by universal laws.
Immanuel Kant
A will whose maxims necessarily harmonize with the laws of autonomy is a holy, absolutely good will.
Immanuel Kant
As everybody likes to be honoured, so people imagine that God also wants to be honoured. They forget that the fulfilment of duty towards men is the only honour adequate to him.
Immanuel Kant
Too much discipline makes one narrow and kills proficiency. Politeness belongs, not to discipline, but to polish, and thus comes last.
Immanuel Kant
Character means that the person derives his rules of conduct from himself and from the dignity of humanity. (Immanuel Kant)
The question here is not, "How conscience ought to be guided? For Conscience is its own General and Leader; it is therefore enough that each man have one. What we want to know is, how conscience can be her own Ariadne.
Immanuel Kant
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Immanuel Kant
There must be a seed of every good thing in the character of men, otherwise no one can bring it out.
Immanuel Kant
Man has his own inclinations and a natural will which, in his actions, by means of his free choice, he follows and directs. There can be nothing more dreadful than that the actions of one man should be subject to the will of another; hence no abhorrence can be more natural than that which a man has for slavery.
Immanuel Kant