Quotes from Immanuel Kant

In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.

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

As nature has uncovered from under this hard shell the seed for which she most tenderly cares - the propensity and vocation to free thinking - this gradually works back upon the character of the people, who thereby gradually become capable of managing freedom; finally, it affects the principles of government, which finds it to its advantage to treat men, who are now more than machines, in accordance with their dignity.

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

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Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

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.

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

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Two things fill my mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the reflection dwells on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

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

it was the duty of philosophy to destroy the illusions which had their origin in misconceptions, whatever darling hopes and valued expectations may be ruined by its explanations.

All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

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

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another.

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 and the moral law within.

Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.

all human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.

The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.

Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.

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.