Immanuel Kant Quotes - Page 2

A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.

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

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.

Look closely. The beautiful may be small.

Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.

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

There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

Enlightenment is man's leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but by lack of determination and courage to use one's intelligence without being guided by another. Sapere Aude! Have the courage to use your own intelligence! is therefore the motto of the enlightenment.

THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.

The two great dividers are religion and LANGUAGE

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.

Great minds think for themselves.

The hand is the visible part of the brain.

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

The human heart refuses To believe in a universe Without a purpose.

For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.

Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.