Famous Immanuel Kant Quotes

  • Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends. – Immanuel Kant

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

    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

  • Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled. – Immanuel Kant

    Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.– Immanuel Kant

  • The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion. – Immanuel Kant

    The main point of enlightenment is man’s release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.– Immanuel Kant

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

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

  • Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason. – Immanuel Kant

    Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.– Immanuel Kant

  • …I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become universal law. – Immanuel Kant

    …I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become universal law.– Immanuel Kant

  • Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness. – Immanuel Kant

    Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.– Immanuel Kant

  • …[T]o be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly safer. – Immanuel Kant

    …[T]o be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly safer.– Immanuel Kant

  • 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

    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