“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ”
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
“We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
“Dare to think!”
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
“For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.”
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
“Have the courage to use your own reason - That is the motto of enlightenment."
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
"The death of dogma is the birth of morality.”
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
“Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason."
—Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
“If beautiful art does not express ideas, ideas which unite people, then it is not art, but only entertainment. People need to be entertained in order to distance themselves from disappointments in their lives.”
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
“One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.”
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
“Look closely. The beautiful may be small.”
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
“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.”
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
“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 (1724-1804)
"The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never."
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
"Great minds think for themselves."
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
"Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not everything."
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
"The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being."
"There are two things that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter."
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
"Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning abilities. It takes intellectual daring to discover the truth."
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
"Do the right thing because it is right."
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
"But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents."
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
"Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes"
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
“But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.”
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
“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 (1724-1804)
“Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy)
Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism)
Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism)
Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic)”
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
“Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end”
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
“...new prejudices will serve as well as old ones to harness the great unthinking masses.
For this enlightenment, however, nothing is required but freedom, and indeed the most harmless among all the things to which this term can properly be applied. It is the freedom to make public use of one's reason at every point. But I hear on all sides, 'Do not argue!' The Officer says: 'Do not argue but drill!' The tax collector: 'Do not argue but pay!' The cleric: 'Do not argue but believe!' Only one prince in the world says, 'Argue as much as you will, and about what you will, but obey!' Everywhere there is restriction on freedom.”
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
“Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!”
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
“We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.”
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
“Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.”
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
“Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance.This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's mind without another's guidance. Dare to know!
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
‘‘there will never be a Newton of the blade of grass, because human science will never be able to explain how a living being can originate from inanimate matter."
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)