Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
Wisdom
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Quotes by Immanuel Kant
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
Wisdom
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Education
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Education
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.
Love
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Wisdom
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Happiness
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Happiness
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Life
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.
Wisdom
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Wisdom
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Education
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Wisdom
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Wisdom
By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
Truth
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
Life
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.
Truth
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
Life
To be is to do.
Wisdom
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
Education
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.'
Wisdom
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
Wisdom
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Happiness
Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
Wisdom
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