507 Quotes by Immanuel Kant

What is more, we cannot do morality a worse service than by seeing to derive it from examples. Every example of it presented to me must first itself be judged by moral principles in order to decide if it is fit to serve as an original example...even the Holy One of the gospel must first be compared with our ideal of moral perfection before we can recognize him to be such.

It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.

Inexperienced in the course of world affairs and incapable of being prepared for all the chances that happen in it, I ask myself only 'Can you also will that your maxim should become a universal law?' Where you cannot it is to be rejected...

The true religion is to be posited not in the knowledge or confession of what God allegedly does or has done for our salvation, but in what we must do to become worthy of this.

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

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

O ser humano é aquilo que a educação faz dele.

The hand is the visible part of the brain.

But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.