Home » Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant 1 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 2 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 3 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 4 Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. Immanuel Kant Reason, Nothing, Divine Add to Collection 5 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 6 Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. Immanuel Kant Experience, Blind, Play Add to Collection 7 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 8 Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. Immanuel Kant Law, World, Action Add to Collection 9 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 10 But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience. Immanuel Kant Knowledge, Experience Add to Collection 11 Ingratitude is the essence of vileness. Immanuel Kant Essence, Ingratitude Add to Collection 12 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 13 It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy. Immanuel Kant Happiness, Happy, God Add to Collection 14 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 15 Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. Immanuel Kant Happiness, Imagination Add to Collection 16 It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience. Immanuel Kant Knowledge, Experience, Doubt Add to Collection 17 Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Immanuel Kant Intelligence, Guidance Add to Collection 18 To be is to do. Immanuel Kant Knowledge Add to Collection 19 What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope? Immanuel Kant Hope, Know, Ought Add to Collection 20 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 21 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 22 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 23 Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands. Immanuel Kant Religion, Recognition Add to Collection 24 If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on. Immanuel Kant Man, Complain, Himself Add to Collection 1 2 3 4 next › last »
