But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience. Immanuel Kant More Quotes by Immanuel Kant More Quotes From Immanuel Kant The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed. Immanuel Kant politicalraceperfect He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray Immanuel Kant progressatheismreligion Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as I am of the way in which the human spirit enters the world and the way in which he goes out of it, I dare not deny the truth of many such narratives. Immanuel Kant ghost-storiesignorantworld If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound. Immanuel Kant constrainifslaw I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law. Immanuel Kant alslawway Reason can never prove the existence of God. Immanuel Kant existenceatheismreason But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained, as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts of useful utensils, and so on, any regularity that has an air of constraint is [to be] avoided as much as possible. That is why the English taste in gardens, or the baroque taste in furniture, carries the imagination's freedom very far, even to the verge of the grotesque, because it is precisely this divorce from any constraint of a rule that the case is posited where taste can show its greatest perfection in designs made by the imagination. Immanuel Kant divorcegardenart The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced. Immanuel Kant existencehumanityblessing If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning. Immanuel Kant earthjusticelost Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings Immanuel Kant rationalgoalhappiness Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience. Immanuel Kant parametersshouldreason Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties. Immanuel Kant cannabisfacultyanarchy A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who rode horseback for two hours. An amusing lecture is as useful for health as the exercise of the body. Immanuel Kant exercisementwo We come no nearer the infinitude of the creative power of God, if we enclose the space of its revelation within a sphere described with the radius of the Milky Way, than if we were to limit it to a ball an inch in diameter. All that is finite, whatever has limits and a definite relation to unity, is equally far removed from the infinite... Eternity is not sufficient to embrace the manifestations of the Supreme Being, if it is not combined with the infinitude of space. Immanuel Kant spacegodscience Prudence approaches, conscience accuses. Immanuel Kant prudenceapproachwar There is needed, no doubt, a body of servants (ministerium) of the invisible church, but not officials (officiales), in other words, teachers but not dignitaries, because in the rational religion of every individual there does not yet exist a church as a universal union (omnitudo collectiva). Immanuel Kant churchdoubtteacher The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does. Immanuel Kant townsnicedoe There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise. Immanuel Kant down-andfailinglimits It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy Immanuel Kant godhappyhappiness All trades, arts, and handiworks have gained by division of labor... Where the different kinds of work are not distinguished and divided, where everyone is a jack-of-all-trades, there manufactures remain still in the greatest barbarism. Immanuel Kant division-of-labordifferentart
