Immanuel Kant quotes

Born
22 April 1724, Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia.

Died
12 February 1804.

Occupation
Philosopher.

Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
– Immanuel Kant

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
– Immanuel Kant

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

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

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
– Immanuel Kant

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

Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
– Immanuel Kant

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

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
– Immanuel Kant

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
– Immanuel Kant

But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
– Immanuel Kant

To be is to do.
– Immanuel Kant

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

Dare to think!
– Immanuel Kant

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
– Immanuel Kant

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
– Immanuel Kant

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.
– Immanuel Kant

Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
– Immanuel Kant

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
– Immanuel Kant

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

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

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
– Immanuel Kant

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