Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant’s comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics have made him one of the most influential figures in modern Western philosophy.
Immanuel Kant Quotes
The hand is the visible part of the brain.
—Immanuel Kant
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was even made.
—Immanuel Kant
Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
—Immanuel Kant
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
—Immanuel Kant
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their unison can knowledge arise.
—Immanuel Kant
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
—Immanuel Kant
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
—Immanuel Kant
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
—Immanuel Kant
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man
—Immanuel Kant
Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
—Immanuel Kant
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
—Immanuel Kant
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
—Immanuel Kant
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
—Immanuel Kant
Give me matter and i will build a world out of it.
—Immanuel Kant
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
—Immanuel Kant
Science is organized knowledge.
Wisdom is organized life.
—Immanuel Kant
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
—Immanuel Kant
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
—Immanuel Kant
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means
—Immanuel Kant
Woman wants control, man self-control .
—Immanuel Kant
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
—Immanuel Kant
Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt.
—Immanuel Kant
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
—Immanuel Kant
Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.
—Immanuel Kant
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
—Immanuel Kant
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
—Immanuel Kant
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
—Immanuel Kant
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild..
—Immanuel Kant
What can I know?
What ought I to do?
What can I hope?
—Immanuel Kant
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
—Immanuel Kant