Immanuel Kant Quotes

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

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.'

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

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

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

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

 To be is to do.

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

The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.

The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.

The human heart refuses to believe in a universe without purpose.

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

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.