The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world as if it originated from an all-sufficient necessary cause. Immanuel Kant More Quotes by Immanuel Kant More Quotes From Immanuel Kant Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. Immanuel Kant goaldoemean It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err — not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all. Immanuel Kant do-not-judgesensesjudging The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth Immanuel Kant marsfutureearth Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic) Immanuel Kant republicanarchylaw He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. Immanuel Kant heartanimalmen Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful. Immanuel Kant doebeautifulart The desire which a man has for a woman is not directed towards her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman ; that she is a human being is of no concern to the man; only her sex is the object of his desires. Immanuel Kant concernwomendesire Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained. Immanuel Kant insight All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us. Immanuel Kant intuitioncharacterthinking Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. Immanuel Kant freedomprincipleslaw From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. Immanuel Kant honestytruthfear Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be compelled to do by another is to adopt a particular end. - 'Metaphysical Principles of Virtue Immanuel Kant adoptionprincipleshumanity If we could see ourselves... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which neither began at birth nor will end with the death of the body. Immanuel Kant communityspiritualworld Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. Immanuel Kant philosophicaloceanphilosophy Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to whom he has done good. Immanuel Kant donepracticekindness Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends. Immanuel Kant treatedendsmean It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless. Immanuel Kant fleetingalivemen Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent. Immanuel Kant libertygovernmentlaw Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification. Immanuel Kant gratificationgoalway By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man. Immanuel Kant successlifelying
