507 Quotes by Immanuel Kant

We assume a common sense as the necessary condition of the universal communicability of our knowledge, which is presupposed in every logic and every principle of knowledge that is not one of skepticism.

It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err — not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all.

Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.

When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any.

The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.

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

Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.

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

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.