507 Quotes by Immanuel Kant

He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt.

A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.

Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‘War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.’

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person’s freedom.

What would proceed from a continual promotion of living force, which does not let itself climb above a certain grade, other than a rapid death from delight?

Maximum individuality within maximum community.