Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
IMMANUEL KANTThe reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
-
-
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
IMMANUEL KANT -
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
IMMANUEL KANT -
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
IMMANUEL KANT -
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
IMMANUEL KANT -
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
IMMANUEL KANT -
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.
IMMANUEL KANT -
Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
IMMANUEL KANT -
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
IMMANUEL KANT -
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
IMMANUEL KANT -
It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.
IMMANUEL KANT -
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
IMMANUEL KANT -
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
IMMANUEL KANT -
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
IMMANUEL KANT -
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
IMMANUEL KANT -
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
IMMANUEL KANT -
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
IMMANUEL KANT -
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
IMMANUEL KANT -
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
IMMANUEL KANT -
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
IMMANUEL KANT -
Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
IMMANUEL KANT -
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
IMMANUEL KANT -
How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.
IMMANUEL KANT -
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
IMMANUEL KANT -
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
IMMANUEL KANT -
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
IMMANUEL KANT -
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
IMMANUEL KANT