Quotes from Immanuel Kant

It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless.

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.

Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.

Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.

Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.

[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.

Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man.

Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly.

Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.

In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.

We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.

A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.

Woman wants control, man self-control .

***Three Conditions of Happiness*** If you have work to do If you have someone you love If You have hope Then You are Happy now!

It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.

Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.

Art is purposiveness without purpose.

The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)

Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.