507 Quotes by Immanuel Kant

Dogmatism is thus the dogmatic procedure of pure reason without previous criticism of its own powers, and in opposing this procedure, we must not be supposed to lend any countenance to that loquacious shallowness which arrogates to itself the name of popularity, nor.

The greatest evil that can oppress civilized peoples derives from wars, not, indeed, so much from actual present or past wars, as from the never-ending and constantly increasing arming for future war.

Freedom is the opposite of necessity.

Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.

It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.

Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one’s means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.

In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. What has a price can be replaced by something else as its equivalent; what on the other hand is raised above all price and therefore admits of no equivalent has a dignity.

Ich kann, weil ich will, was ich muss.

The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.