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Immanuel Kant Quotes: 13

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?
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! 'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment.
An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Critique of Practical Reason
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
Critique of Pure Reason
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Critique of Pure Reason
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence.
Critique of Practical Reason
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
Perpetual Peace
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.