Immanuel Kant Quotes

You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am

If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself.

Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.

Do the right thing because it is right.

But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.

Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning abilities. It takes intellectual daring to discover the truth.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

The only thing permanent is change.

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

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

All perception is colored by emotion.

Maturity is having the courage to use one's own intelligence!

Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not everything

The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

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

It is never too late to become reasonable and wise.

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

Do what is right, though the world may perish.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.