Home » Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant 1 Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. Immanuel Kant Reason, Nothing, Divine Add to Collection 2 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 3 Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. Immanuel Kant Experience, Blind, Play Add to Collection 4 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 5 Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. Immanuel Kant Law, World, Action Add to Collection 6 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 7 But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience. Immanuel Kant Knowledge, Experience Add to Collection 8 Ingratitude is the essence of vileness. Immanuel Kant Essence, Ingratitude Add to Collection 9 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 10 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 11 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 12 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 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 A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose. Immanuel Kant Action, Purpose, Reference Add to Collection 15 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 16 Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands. Immanuel Kant Religion, Recognition Add to Collection 17 If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on. Immanuel Kant Man, Complain, Himself Add to Collection 18 So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. Immanuel Kant Law, World, Action Add to Collection 19 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 20 From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. Immanuel Kant Man, Wood, Nothing Add to Collection 21 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 22 I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief. Immanuel Kant Knowledge, Belief, Order 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 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. Immanuel Kant Honest, Number, Seek Add to Collection 1 2 3 4 next › last »
