Immanuel Kant Quotes, Men Quotes, Giving Quotes

Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not everything

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Men Quotes , Giving Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Ocean Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Wife Quotes

This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function. Such governments are illuminated by the example that the existence of freedom need not give cause for the least concern regarding public order and harmony in the commonwealth. If only they refrain from inventing artifices to keep themselves in it, men will gradually raise themselves from barbarism.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Struggle Quotes , Men Quotes

Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Mean Quotes , Humanity Quotes

Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling to the people for not having insisted upon this punishment; for otherwise the people can be regarded as collaborators in his public violation of justice.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Blood Quotes , Punishment Quotes

The human heart refuses To believe in a universe Without a purpose.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Believe Quotes , Heart Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Nature Quotes , Powerful Quotes

Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Courage Quotes , Prudence Quotes

The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a kind to satisfy this aim most completely.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Children Quotes , Knowing Quotes

Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Instruments Quotes , Ends Quotes

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Three Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Men Quotes , Order Quotes

Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Construction Quotes

Maximum individuality within maximum community

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Community Quotes , Individuality Quotes

The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable of the greatest happiness.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Destiny Quotes , Men Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , War Quotes , Impossible Quotes

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Relationship Quotes

Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Mean Quotes , Compassion Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Choices Quotes , Independence Quotes