507 Quotes by Immanuel Kant

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.

The march of mathematics is pursued on a broad and magnificent highway, which the latest posterity shall frequent without fear of danger or impediment.

Inexperienced in the course of world affairs and incapable of being prepared for all the chances that happen in it, I ask myself only ‘Can you also will that your maxim should become a universal law?’ Where you cannot it is to be rejected...

Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not everything.

Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.

Man’s duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself.

Two things fill the mind with renewed and increasing awe and reverence the more often and the more steadily that they are meditated on: the starry skies above me and the moral law inside me. I have not to search for them and conjecture them as though they were veiled in darkness or were in the transcendent region beyond my horizon; I see them before me and connect them directly with the consciousness of my existence.

War itself requires no particular motivation, but appears to be ingrained in human nature and is even valued as something noble; indeed, the desire for glory inspires men to it, even independently of selfish motives.

How things may be in themselves, without regard to the representations through which they affect us, is utterly beyond the sphere of our cognition.