Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end. Immanuel Kant More Quotes by Immanuel Kant More Quotes From Immanuel Kant Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole? Immanuel Kant reasonable deny assuming 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. Immanuel Kant kind knowing children Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Immanuel Kant divine-guidance intelligence maturity 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 honesty integrity happiness By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another ... has even less worth than if he were a mere thing. ... makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself. Immanuel Kant men believe lying Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee. Immanuel Kant truth life children 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. Immanuel Kant struggle men order Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable. Immanuel Kant suicidal suicide death Maximum individuality within maximum community Immanuel Kant maximum individuality community The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally. Immanuel Kant society justice civilization 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 sublime pain beautiful The death of dogma is the birth of morality. Immanuel Kant atheism growth acceptance No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law ? i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself. Immanuel Kant law doe long All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas. Immanuel Kant science ideas knowledge ...as soon as we examine suicide from the standpoint of religion we immediately see it in its true light. We have been placed in this world under certain conditions and for specific purposes. But a suicide opposes the purpose of his creator; he arrives in the other world as one who has deserted his post; he must be looked upon as a rebel against God. God is our owner; we are his property; his providence works for our good. Immanuel Kant suicidal light suicide Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience. Immanuel Kant impatience procrastination evil Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument. Immanuel Kant instruments ends should Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility Immanuel Kant independence human-nature choices Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. Immanuel Kant philosophical divine reason Since the narrower or wider community of the peoples of the earth has developed so far that a violation of rights in one place is felt throughout the world, the idea of a cosmopolitan right is not fantastical, high-flown or exaggerated notion. It is a complement to the unwritten code of the civil and international law, necessary for the public rights of mankind in general and thus for the realization of perpetual peace. Immanuel Kant rights law ideas
