507 Quotes by Immanuel Kant

Dare to think!

It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.

Under a nonrepublican constitution, where subjects are not citizens, the easiest thing in the world to do is to declare war. Here the ruler is not a fellow citizen, but the nation’s owner, and war does not affect his table, his hunt, his places of pleasure, his court festivals, and so on. Thus, he can decide to go to war for the most meaningless of reasons, as if it were a kind of pleasure party...

All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.

Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings.

The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.

From the crooked timber of humanity, never was a straight thing made.

The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth.

The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend – and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him.