Wednesday, January 20, 2010

THE BEST OF IMMANUEL KANT

  • All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason."
  • "All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us."
  • "Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end."
  • "By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man."
  • "Do what is right, though the world may perish."
  • "Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play."
  • "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."
  • "If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on."
  • "Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another."
  • "In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so."
  • "It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience."
  • "May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law."
  • "Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason."
  • "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
  • "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."
  • "Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me."
    - Immanuel Kant

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