“ In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics. Immanuel Kant
“ The true religion is to be posited not in the knowledge or confession of what God allegedly does or has done for our salvation, but in what we must do to become worthy of this. Immanuel Kant
“ Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. Immanuel Kant
“ All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. Immanuel Kant
“ The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being but because she is a woman. That she is a human being is of no concern to him. Immanuel Kant
“ 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 l… Immanuel Kant
“ It is true, no doubt, that this principle of the necessary unity of apperception is itself an identical and therefore an analytic proposition; but it shows, nevertheless, the necessity of a synthesis… Immanuel Kant
“ High towers, and metaphysically-great men resembling them, round both of which there is commonly much wind, are not for me. My place is the fruitful bathos, the bottom-land, of experience; and the wor… Immanuel Kant
“ Thus he has two standpoints from which he can consider himself...: first, as belonging to the world of sense, under the laws of nature (heteronomy), and, second, as belonging to the intelligible world… Immanuel Kant
“ True politics cannot take a single step without first paying homage to morals, and while politics itself is a difficult art, its combination with morals is no art at all; for morals cuts the Gordian k… Immanuel Kant
“ Anarchy is law and freedom without force.Despotism is law and force without freedom.Barbarism force without freedom and law.Republicanism is force with freedom and law. Immanuel Kant
“ [A man], who is in prosperity, while he sees that others have to contend with great wretchedness and that he could help them, thinks: What concern is it of mine? Let everyone be as happy as Heaven ple… Immanuel Kant
“ Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing. Immanuel Kant
“ Imitation finds no place at all in morality, and examples serve only for encouragement, that is, they put beyond doubt the feasibility of what the law commands, they make visible that which the practi… Immanuel Kant
“ [A man] finds himself forced by necessity to borrow money. He knows that he will not be able to repay it, but sees also that nothing will be lent to him unless he promises stoutly to repay it in defin… Immanuel Kant
“ ...in its practical purpose the footpath of freedom is the only one on which it is possible to make use of reason in our conduct. Hence it is as impossible for the subtlest philosophy as for the commo… Immanuel Kant
“ [It] is nevertheless better than the theological concept, of deriving morality from a divine, all-perfect will, not merely because we do not intuit this perfection, but can derive it solely from our c… Immanuel Kant
“ What is more, we cannot do morality a worse service than by seeing to derive it from examples. Every example of it presented to me must first itself be judged by moral principles in order to decide if… Immanuel Kant
“ Inexperienced in the course of world affairs and incapable of being prepared for all the chances that happen in it, I ask myself only 'Can you also will that your maxim should become a universal law?'… Immanuel Kant
“ It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will. Immanuel Kant
