Immanuel Kant Quotes, Teacher Quotes, Historical Quotes

Christianity possesses the great advantage over Judaism of being represented as coming from the mouth of the first Teacher not as a statutory but as a moral religion, and as thus entering into the closest relation with reason so that, through reason, it was able of itself, without historical learning, to be spread at all times and among all peoples with the greatest trustworthiness.

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If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.

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Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings

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

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The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.

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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

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The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it could do even better in airless space. Likewise, Plato abandoned the world of the senses because it posed so many hindrances for the understanding, and dared to go beyond it on the wings of the ideas, in the empty space of pure understanding.

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Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray.

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So act that anything you do may become universal law.

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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

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

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A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral.

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

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Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

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When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any

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Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.

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Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.

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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done

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There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

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Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

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