Immanuel Kant Quotes

"The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted."
-Immanuel Kant

"The height of progress, when people's propensity to strive for what is dispensable begins to interfere with what is indispensable, is called luxury."
-Immanuel Kant

"So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world."
-Immanuel Kant

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
-Immanuel Kant in Wisdom quotes.

"The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason."
-Immanuel Kant

"Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another."
-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."
-Immanuel Kant

"Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law."
-Immanuel Kant

"It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience."
-Immanuel Kant

"The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed."
-Immanuel Kant

"Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end."
-Immanuel Kant in Relationships quotes.

"Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee."
-Immanuel Kant

"If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on."
-Immanuel Kant

"From timber so crooked as that from which man is carved, nothing entirely straight can be made."
-Immanuel Kant

"Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer."
-Immanuel Kant

"Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck."
-Immanuel Kant

"Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination."
-Immanuel Kant

"That all our knowledge begins with experience, there is indeed no doubt....but although our knowledge originates WITH experience, it does not all arise OUT OF experience."
-Immanuel Kant

"Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public."
-Immanuel Kant

"'Human reason is by nature architectonic.'"
-Immanuel Kant