Home » Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant Born : _________ Died : -- 1 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 Hope, Questions Add to Collection 2 Ingratitude is the essence of vileness. Immanuel Kant Essence, Ingratitude Add to Collection 3 Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved. Immanuel Kant Man, Nothing, Straight Add to Collection 4 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 Live, Long, Happily Add to Collection 5 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 Knowledge, Intuition, Way Add to Collection 6 Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. Immanuel Kant Reason, Nothing, Divine Add to Collection 7 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, Way Add to Collection 8 Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. Immanuel Kant Experience, Blind, Play Add to Collection 9 The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason. Immanuel Kant Good, Evil Add to Collection 10 Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. Immanuel Kant Law, World, Action Add to Collection 11 May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law. Immanuel Kant Life, Law, Live Add to Collection 12 But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience. Immanuel Kant Knowledge, Experience Add to Collection 13 Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. Immanuel Kant Happiness, Happy, Morality Add to Collection 14 If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on. Immanuel Kant Man, Complain, Himself Add to Collection 15 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.' Immanuel Kant War, Evil, Praise Add to Collection 16 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 Heart, Pet, Man Add to Collection 17 Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end. Immanuel Kant End, Human, Always Add to Collection 18 To be is to do. Immanuel Kant Knowledge Add to Collection 19 It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience. Immanuel Kant Knowledge, Experience, Doubt Add to Collection 20 All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. Immanuel Kant Knowledge, Understanding Add to Collection 21 Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. Immanuel Kant Thoughts, Blind, Content Add to Collection 22 Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law. Immanuel Kant Life, Law, Live Add to Collection 23 Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. Immanuel Kant Ocean, Dark, Without Add to Collection 24 By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man. Immanuel Kant Man, Lie, Dignity Add to Collection 1 2 3 4 next › last »
