The quotations of

Immanuel Kant

German philosopher

1724–1804

7 quotes, most often on Morality.

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Critique of Practical Reason (1788)
- Happiness
- Morality
Whatever, over and above good life-conduct, man fancies that he can do to become well-pleasing to God is mere religious delusion and counterfeit worship of God.
Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone (1793), Book IV, Part 2, Section 2
- God
- Religion
There is … only a single categorical imperative and it is this: Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785), Ch. II
- Morality
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 (1788), Translated by Lewis White Beck
- Morality
- Nature
But though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows, that all arises out of experience.
Critique of Pure Reason (1781; 1787), B 1
- Experience
- Knowledge
By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
Doctrine of Virtue as translated by Mary J. Gregor (1964), p. 93
- Truth & Lies
All that is required for this enlightenment is freedom; and particularly the least harmful of all that may be called freedom, namely, the freedom for man to make public use of his reason in all matters.
What is Enlightenment? (1784)
- Freedom

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