Quotes by Immanuel Kant

“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.””

“Dare to think!””

“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.””

“Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.””

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

“Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt””

“For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.””

“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.””

“Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.””

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

“The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.””

“The death of dogma is the birth of morality.””

“Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (naturaliter maiorennes), nevertheless remains under lifelong tutelage, and why it is so easy for others to set themselves up as their guardians. It is so easy not to be of age. If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a physician who decides my diet, and so forth, I need not trouble myself. I need not think, if I can only pay - others will easily undertake the irksome work for me.That the step to competence is held to be very dangerous by the far greater portion of mankind...””

“But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.””