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. – Immanuel Kant
Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable. – Immanuel Kant
Two things fill the heart with renewed and increasing awe and reverence the more often and the more steadily that they are meditated on: the starry skies above me and the moral law inside me. – Immanuel Kant
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills. – Immanuel Kant
Immaturity is the incapacity to use ones intelligence without the guidance of another. – Immanuel Kant
It is not Gods will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy. – Immanuel Kant
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands. – Immanuel Kant
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. – Immanuel Kant
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. – Immanuel Kant
Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge. – Immanuel Kant
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. – Immanuel Kant
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief. – Immanuel Kant
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope? – Immanuel 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? – Immanuel Kant
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. – Immanuel Kant
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience. – Immanuel Kant
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience. – Immanuel Kant
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. – Immanuel Kant
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics. – Immanuel Kant
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. – Immanuel Kant
