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Immanuel Kant Quotes


It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

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.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

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

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

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

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

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

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

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.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

To be is to do.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?