Immanuel Kant Quotes, Spring Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the power of knowing an object through these representations (spontaneity [in the production] of concepts).

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Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.

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Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.

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The only thing that is good without qualification is a good will.

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If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning.

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Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

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Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

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***Three Conditions of Happiness*** If you have work to do If you have someone you love If You have hope Then You are Happy now!

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Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained.

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Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.

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Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.

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I learned to honor human beings, and I would find myself far more useless than the common laborer if I did not believe that this consideration could impart to all others a value establishing the rights of humanity.

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We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.

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That Logic has advanced in this sure course, even from the earliest times, is apparent from the fact that, since Aristotle, it has been unable to advance a step, and thus to all appearance has reached its completion.

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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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Since the narrower or wider community of the peoples of the earth has developed so far that a violation of rights in one place is felt throughout the world, the idea of a cosmopolitan right is not fantastical, high-flown or exaggerated notion. It is a complement to the unwritten code of the civil and international law, necessary for the public rights of mankind in general and thus for the realization of perpetual peace.

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