64 Uplifting Quotes By Immanuel Kant, The Great German Philosopher
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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.
Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
Dare to think!
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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.
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. Immanuel Kant
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism)
Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism)
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Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic)
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
