Immanuel Kant Quotes, Know Me Quotes

You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am

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

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Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard.

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An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.

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All our knowledge begins with the senses...

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

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Things which we see are not by themselves what we see ... It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may be by themselves and apart from the receptivity of our senses. We know nothing but our manner of perceiving them.

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In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.

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Great minds think for themselves.

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When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.

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Art is purposiveness without purpose.

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Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.

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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.

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Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.

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

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Men will not understand ... that when they fulfil their duties to men, they fulfil thereby God's commandments; that they are consequently always in the service of God, as long as their actions are moral, and that it is absolutely impossible to serve God otherwise.

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Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.

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Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.

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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.

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Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.

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