“ Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason. Immanuel Kant
“ 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
“ The main point of enlightenment is man's release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion. Immanuel Kant
“ Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself: and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being to use him as a mere means for some external purpose. Immanuel Kant
“ The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself. Immanuel Kant
“ Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. Immanuel Kant
“ The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use of their own reason, and which can best accommodate their duties to their inclinations. Immanuel Kant
“ But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience. Immanuel Kant
“ It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy. Immanuel Kant
“ The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty. Immanuel Kant
“ All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope? Immanuel Kant
“ Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Immanuel Kant
“ But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience. Immanuel Kant
