Immanuel Kant Quotes

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
Immanuel Kant

Live, Long, Necessary

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

Life, Live, May

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

Dark, Ocean, Wreck

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Immanuel Kant

Thoughts, Content, Blind

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
Immanuel Kant

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

Experience, Knowledge, Follow

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Immanuel Kant

Nothing, Reason, Divine

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
Immanuel Kant

Nothing, Made, Straight

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Immanuel Kant

Religion, Divine, Duties

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.
Immanuel Kant

Good, Evil, Reason

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
Immanuel Kant

Thought, Characters, Object

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Immanuel Kant

Law, Made, Whole

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Philosopher

Born: April 22, 1724

Died: February 12, 1804

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