Immanuel Kant Quotes

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I ought, therefore I can. - Immanuel Kant quote.
I ought, therefore I can.
— Immanuel Kant
Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination. - Immanuel Kant quote.
Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.
— Immanuel Kant Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Ethics

happiness imagination

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. - Immanuel Kant quote.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
— Immanuel Kant
Philosophy is the knowledge of the limits of our knowledge. - Immanuel Kant quote.
Philosophy is the knowledge of the limits of our knowledge.
— Immanuel Kant
The human heart refuses to believe in a universe without a purpose. - Immanuel Kant quote.
The human heart refuses to believe in a universe without a purpose.
— Immanuel Kant

determination

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. - Immanuel Kant quote.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men.
— Immanuel Kant
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law. - Immanuel Kant quote.
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
— Immanuel Kant
By a lie a human being throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a human being. - Immanuel Kant quote.
By a lie a human being throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a human being.
— Immanuel Kant The Metaphysics of Morals

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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics. - Immanuel Kant quote.
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
— Immanuel Kant

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Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. - Immanuel Kant quote.
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
— Immanuel Kant Critique of Practical Reason

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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 quote.
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

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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 quote.
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

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Two things fill the mind with ever increasing wonder and awe the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. - Immanuel Kant quote.
Two things fill the mind with ever increasing wonder and awe the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.