507 Quotes by Immanuel Kant

By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.

Habe den Mut, dich deines eigenen Verstandes zu bedienen.

Riches ennoble a man’s circumstances, but not himself.

Hence we may at once dismiss as easily foreseen but futile objection, “that by our admitting the ideality of space and of time the whole sensible world would be turned into mere illusion.

The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don’t know what you’re doing, someone else does.

The greatest and perhaps only utility of all philosophy of pure reason is thus only negative, namely that it does not serve for expansion, as an organon, but rather, as a discipline, serves for the determination of boundaries, and instead of discovering truth it has only the silent merit of guarding against errors.

Maturity is having the courage to use one’s own intelligence.

Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility.

Man’s greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.