Immanuel Kant Quotes

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.

The will is conceived as a faculty of determining oneself to action in accordance with the conception of certain laws. And such a faculty can be found only in rational beings.

Philosophical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from concepts mathematical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from the construction of concepts.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

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.

...[F]reedom... is a property of all rational beings.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

Woman wants control, man self-control .