Quotes from Immanuel Kant

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

But to unite in a permanent religious institution which is not to be subject to doubt before the public even in the lifetime of one man, and thereby to make a period of time fruitless in the progress of mankind toward improvement, thus working to the disadvantage of posterity - that is absolutely forbidden. For himself (and only for a short time) a man may postpone enlightenment in what he ought to know, but to renounce it for posterity is to injure and trample on the rights of mankind .

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.

Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.

It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law without contradiction.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.

Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained.

What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.

Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification.

Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.