Kant Quotes – Insights into the Mind of a Philosopher

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

We are not rich by what we possess, but by what we can do without.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the one, we understand an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the other, one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe… the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant Quotes – Insights into the Mind of a Philosopher part 2

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

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.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

To be is to do.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe – the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

man’s duty is to improve himself and society.

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one’s intelligence without the guidance of another.

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

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.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

A good will is not good because of what it performs or effects, … but only because of its volition.

Do not be concerned with others’ judgments; simply strive to do what is right.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

The greater a man’s talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become, by your will, a universal law of nature.

Freedom is that which gives us insight into necessity.

It is not necessary for thee to know what I am doing; but it is necessary that I know what thou art doing.

It is impossible to conceive of anything in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

To be is to do.

So act that the maxim of your will can always hold at the same time as a principle of universal legislation.

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

Enlightenment is man’s release from his self-incurred tutelage.

In every good man there is a godlike spark.

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

We are not rich by what we possess, but by what we can do without.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the one, we understand an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the other, one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe… the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

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.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

To be is to do.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe – the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

man’s duty is to improve himself and society.

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one’s intelligence without the guidance of another.

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

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.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

A good will is not good because of what it performs or effects, … but only because of its volition.

Do not be concerned with others’ judgments; simply strive to do what is right.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

The greater a man’s talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become, by your will, a universal law of nature.

Freedom is that which gives us insight into necessity.

It is not necessary for thee to know what I am doing; but it is necessary that I know what thou art doing.

It is impossible to conceive of anything in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

To be is to do.

So act that the maxim of your will can always hold at the same time as a principle of universal legislation.

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

Enlightenment is man’s release from his self-incurred tutelage.

In every good man there is a godlike spark.