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kant | Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. | love |
kant | Do the right thing because it is right. | ethics |
kant | The only thing permanent is change. | null |
kant | Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not everything | ethics |
kant | Great minds think for themselves. | knowledge |
kant | Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard. | null |
kant | A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides. | religion;love |
kant | All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. | knowledge;history;education |
kant | If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning. | null |
kant | Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. | null |
kant | Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. | ethics |
kant | Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. | null |
kant | Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. | null |
kant | The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does. | null |
kant | Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man. | ethics |
kant | Reason can never prove the existence of God. | religion |
kant | All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope? | knowledge |
kant | By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man. | politics;ethics |
kant | Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed. | religion |
kant | Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representations of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind. | ethics |
kant | 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. | ethics;religion |
kant | [A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights. | ethics |
kant | The death of dogma is the birth of morality. | ethics |
kant | Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties. | null |
kant | The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation. But it is one of the worthiest inquiries to see how far our reason can go in the knowledge of God. | knowledge |
kant | Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge priori. | knowledge |
kant | Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent. | ethics |
kant | If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism. | ethics |
kant | Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. | education;knowledge |
kant | Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it! | null |
kant | 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. | ethics;knowledge |
kant | [R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will. | null |
kant | The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason. | null |
kant | Moral Teleology supplies the deficiency in physical Teleology , and first establishes a Theology ; because the latter, if it did not borrow from the former without being observed, but were to proceed consistently, could only found a Demonology , which is incapable of any definite concept. | null |
kant | There is nothing higher than reason. | null |
kant | Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation a priori. | null |
kant | Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee. | knowledge;ethics;history;education |
kant | But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows. | knowledge;education;ethics |
kant | There is needed, no doubt, a body of servants (ministerium) of the invisible church, but not officials (officiales), in other words, teachers but not dignitaries, because in the rational religion of every individual there does not yet exist a church as a universal union (omnitudo collectiva). | religion;education;knowledge |
kant | Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a pupil who listens to everything that the teacher chooses to say, but of an appointed judge who compels the witness to answer questions which he has himself formulated. | education;knowledge |
kant | But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience. | knowledge;ethics;education |
kant | 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. | knowledge |
kant | The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed. | history;politics |
kant | Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished. | history |
kant | 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. | education |
kant | Everything in nature acts in conformity with law. | null |
kant | I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy. | knowledge;history |
kant | All trades, arts, and handiworks have gained by division of labor... Where the different kinds of work are not distinguished and divided, where everyone is a jack-of-all-trades, there manufactures remain still in the greatest barbarism. | null |
kant | Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray. | null |
kant | The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs. | knowledge |