Inspirational Quotes by Immanuel Kant — Words of Wisdom for Daily Success

“But, above all, it will confer an inestimable benefit on morality and religion, by showing that all the objections urged against them may be silenced for ever by the”

“I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.”

“The death of dogma is the birth of morality.”

“If the truth shall kill them, let them die.”

“Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.”

“...When he puts a thing on a pedestal and calls it beautiful, he demands the same delight from others. He judges not merely for himself, but for all men, and then speaks of beauty as if it were the property of things.”

“The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? (Critique of Pure Reason”

“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.”

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

“Skepticism is thus a resting-place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings and make survey of the region in which it finds itself, so that for the future it may be able to choose its path with more certainty. But it is no dwelling-place for permanent settlement. Such can be obtained only through perfect certainty in our knowledge, alike of the objects themselves and of the limits within which all our knowledge of objects is enclosed.”

“Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”

“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.”

“Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! 'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment.”

“Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”

“To be is to do.”

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”

“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.”