Quotes from Immanuel Kant

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.'

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

The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.

Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.

Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.

Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?

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

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.

The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use of their own reason, and which can best accommodate their duties to their inclinations.

For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.

Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard.

With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.

No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been made.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? (Critique of Pure Reason

Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.