It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy Immanuel Kant More Quotes by Immanuel Kant More Quotes From Immanuel Kant Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man. Immanuel Kant animalmenmean Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It is because of laziness and cowardice that it is so easy for others to usurp the role of guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor! Immanuel Kant immaturityimmatureroles One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him. Immanuel Kant changewisdominspirational An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty. Immanuel Kant moraldoneaction I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself. Immanuel Kant Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made. Immanuel Kant alshumanitymade To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good - in all sorts of social grace and decorum. But to consider ourselves as Immanuel Kant degreesgraceart All our knowledge falls with the bounds of experience. Immanuel Kant boundsfall When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward. Immanuel Kant thoughtfulmindhappiness What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others. Immanuel Kant self-improvementdutyinspirational The sceptics, a kind of nomads, despising all settled culture of the land, broke up from time to time all civil society. Fortunately their number was small, and they could not prevent the old settlers from returning to cultivate the ground afresh, though without any fixed plan or agreement. Immanuel Kant landagreementnumbers The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing. Immanuel Kant libertygovernmentpeople Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form. Immanuel Kant argumentformifs Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law. Immanuel Kant principleslawaction Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a pupil who listens to everything that the teacher chooses to say, but of an appointed judge who compels the witness to answer questions which he has himself formulated. Immanuel Kant teachercharacterorder This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impression on the public mind as the equally subtle objections brought against these truths. On the other hand, since both inevitably force themselves on every man who rises to the height of speculation, it becomes the manifest duty of the schools to enter upon a thorough investigation of the rights of speculative reason, and thus to prevent the scandal which metaphysical controversies are sure, sooner or later, to cause even to the masses. Immanuel Kant menhandsschool Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.' Immanuel Kant evilwarpeace A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose. Immanuel Kant philosophicalpurposewould-be Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise. Immanuel Kant scienceknowledgethinking Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. Immanuel Kant goaldoemean
