Immanuel Kant Quotes

Thinking in pictures precedes thinking in words.

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The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world as if it originated from an all-sufficient necessary cause.

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Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

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What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.

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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

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Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.

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Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.

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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.

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Notion without intuition is empty, intuition without notion is blind.

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[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.

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If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and in outer actions, that every, even the least, incentive to these actions and all external occasions which affect them were so known to us that his future conduct could be predicted with as great a certainty as the occurrence of a solar or lunar eclipse, we could nevertheless still assert that the man is free.

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Act in such a way that you will be worthy of being happy.

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I feel a complete thirst for knowledge and an eager unrest to go further in it as well as satisfaction at every acquisition. There was a time when I believed that this alone could constitute the honor of mankind, and I had contempt for the ignorant rabble who know nothing.

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Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.

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Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

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Laziness and cowardice explain why so many men. . . remain under a life-long tutelage and why it is so easy for some men to set themselves up as the guardians of all the rest. . . If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a doctor who decides my diet, I need not trouble myself. If I am willing to pay, I need not think. Others will do it for me.

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Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument.

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Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.

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

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Always regard every man as an end in himself, and never use him merely as a means to your ends [i.e., respect that each person has a life and purpose that is their own; do not treat people as objects to be exploited].

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