Quotes

Have the courage to use your own reason!

Kant I. An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment? 1784, P. 1.

Act so that the maxim of thy will can always at the same time hold good as a principle of universal legislation.

Kant I. The Collected works of Immanuel Kant, 2021. P. 564.

So act as to treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only.

Kant I. The Collected works of Immanuel Kant, 2021. P.721.

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

Kant I. Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1960. P. 18.

Man is made man by education only.

Kant I. The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant. Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott company, 1904. P. 82.

Understanding is sublime, wit is beautiful.

Kant I. Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1960. P. 14.

Enjoyment is the feeling of life being promoted.

Kant I. Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1974. P. 100.

Enjoyment that we acquire by our own (legitimate) efforts is doubly felt.

Kant I. Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1974. P. 105.

To be in fashion is a matter of taste.

Kant I. Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1974. P. 112.

But it is always better to be a fool in fashion than a fool out of fashion.

Kant I. Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1974. P. 112.

Thoughts without content are void; intuitions without conceptions, blind.

Kant I. The Collected works of Immanuel Kant, 2021. P.77.

The mind contemplates itself or its internal state, gives, indeed, no intuition of the soul as an object.

Kant I. The Collected works of Immanuel Kant, 2021. P.56.

Give me matter and I will construct a world out of it!

Kant I. Kant's cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens. With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham. Glasgow: J. Maclehose and sons, 1900. P. 142.

From the day a human being begins to speak in terms of “I,” he brings forth his beloved self wherever he can, and egoism progresses incessantly.

Kant I. Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1974. P. 10.

Men are, one and all, actors — the more so the more civilized they are.

Kant I. Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1974. P. 30.

All the human virtue in circulation is small change: one would have to be a child to take it for real gold.

Kant I. Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1974. P. 32.

A fool is one who sacrifices things of value to ends that have no value.

Kant I. Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1974. P. 81.

The proud man is rather the tool of scoundlers, called an offensive fool.

Kant I. Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1974. P. 41.

Man has a natural tendency to compare himself, in his behavior, with others more important than himself.

Kant I. Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1974. P. 112.

Man must, therefore, be educated to the good.

Kant I. Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1974. P. 186.

But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.

Kant I. The Collected works of Immanuel Kant, 2021. P.37.

The moral law is holy.

Kant I. The Collected works of Immanuel Kant, 2021. P.619.

Man is certainly unholy enough, but humanity in his person must be holy to him.

Kant I. Critique Of Practical Reason. A Liberal Arts Press Book, 1956. P. 193.

Duty is the necessity of acting from respect for the law.

Kant I. The Collected works of Immanuel Kant, 2021. P.701.

Character consists in the readiness to act according to maxims.

Kant I. The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant. Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott company, 1904. P. 202.

A work composed with spirit and taste can be called poetry

Kant I. Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1974. P. 113. 

The more habits a man has the less is he free and independent.

Kant I. The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant. Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott company, 1904. P. 161.

Good education is exactly that whence springs all the good in the world.

The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant. Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott company, 1904. P. 133.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.

Kant I. The Collected works of Immanuel Kant, 2021. P.718

Cunning is petty, but beautiful.

Kant I. Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings // CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. – Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. P. 18.

The powerful one is kind.

Kant I. Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings // CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. – Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. P. 67.

The Beautiful is the symbol of the morally Good.

Kant I. Critique of Judgment.  New York : Barnes & Noble Books, 2005. P. 250.

Politics says, "Be wise as serpents"; morals adds the limiting condition, " and guileless as doves". If these precepts cannot stand together in one command, then there is a real quarrel between politics and morals.

Kant I. Perpetual peace; a philosophical essay. London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1903. P. 162.

That which GRATIFIES a man is called pleasant; that which merely pleases him is beatiful, that is esteemed [or approved] by him, i.e. that to which he accords an objective worth, good.

Kant I. Critique of Judgment.  New York : Barnes & Noble Books, 2005. P. 54.

Pleasantness concerns irrational animals also; but Beauty only concerns men.

Kant I. Critique of Judgment.  New York : Barnes & Noble Books, 2005. P. 54.

Genius is a talent for producing that for which no definite rule can be given.

Kant I. Critique of Judgment.  New York : Barnes & Noble Books, 2005. P. 189.

Affectionate love is also different from marital love.

Kant I. Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings // CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. – Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. P. 68.

The sensitive soul at peace is the greatest perfection in speech.

Kant I. Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings // CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. – Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. P. 70.

Every coward lies, but not vice versa.

Kant I. Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings // CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. – Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. P. 80.

The sanguineous person goes where he is not invited.

Kant I. Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings // CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. – Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. P. 114.

The choleric one does not go where he is not invited in accordance with propriety.

Kant I. Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings // CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. – Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. P. 114.

The melancholic one prevents himself from not being invited at all.

Kant I. Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings // CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. – Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. P. 114.

Concerning domestic nature, the melancholic is penurious; the sanguineous one is a bad host. The choleric one is acquisitive, but magnificent.

Kant I. Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings // CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. – Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. P. 114.

The melancholic person is jealous; the choleric one, power-hungry the sanguine one, occupied with courting.

Kant I. Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings // CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. – Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. P. 114.

The morality that wants nothing but unselfishness is chimerical.

Kant I. Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings // CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. – Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. P. 186.

Flowers are free natural beauties.

Kant I. Critique of Judgment.  New York : Barnes & Noble Books, 2005. P. 81.

To know what questions we may reasonably propose is in itself a strong evidence of sagacity and intelligence.

Kant I. Critique of Judgment.  New York : Barnes & Noble Books, 2005. P. 81.