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Famous Immanuel Kant Quotes
“Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.”
“Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.”
“A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.”
“It is never too late to become reasonable and wise.”
“Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.”
“Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.”
“An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.”
“Notion without intuition is empty, intuition without notion is blind.”
“Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal.”
“A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.”
“If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.”
“If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.”
“Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.”
“Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument.”
“Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.”
“Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.”
“Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.”
“Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.”
“The only thing that is good without qualification is a good will.”