He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray Immanuel Kant More Quotes by Immanuel Kant More Quotes From Immanuel Kant Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. Immanuel Kant timber humanity made One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity. Immanuel Kant rich dignity able Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. Immanuel Kant voice numbers mean The only thing that is good without qualification is a good will. Immanuel Kant qualifications good-will The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity. Immanuel Kant biblical bible book Marriage...is the union of two people of different sexes with a view to the mutual possession of each other's sexual attributes for the duration of their lives. Immanuel Kant views two sex If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism. Immanuel Kant criticism conversation men The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend — and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him. Immanuel Kant absurd wish believe The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part of the American people. Immanuel Kant racist yellow people Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers. Immanuel Kant awareness life-is action Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling to the people for not having insisted upon this punishment; for otherwise the people can be regarded as collaborators in his public violation of justice. Immanuel Kant punishment islands blood Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge. Immanuel Kant yield intuition elements Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! Immanuel Kant courage men lying There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced. Immanuel Kant innocence splendid protect If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and in outer actions, that every, even the least, incentive to these actions and all external occasions which affect them were so known to us that his future conduct could be predicted with as great a certainty as the occurrence of a solar or lunar eclipse, we could nevertheless still assert that the man is free. Immanuel Kant character men science Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites. Immanuel Kant race humanity perfection The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if it were a free play of the imagination; poetry that of conducting a free play of the imagination as if it were a serious business of the understanding. Immanuel Kant imagination play art In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion. Immanuel Kant judgement opinion beautiful Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent. Immanuel Kant care skills mean Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said, 'War is an evil in as much as it produces more wicked men than it takes away.' Immanuel Kant men war order
